Henry Ford saved some of Thomas Edison’s “dying breath” in a test tube after Edison helped him with his gas-powered car idea. The two inventors became friends and had winter homes next to each other in Florida. Edison’s first two children were nicknamed “Dot” and “Dash” and Ford’s first automaker produced only 20 cars. Before his death, Edison reportedly said, “It’s very nice over there.”
Thomas Edison helped bring Henry Ford’s idea for a gas-powered car to life, and when Edison died in 1931, Ford repaid him in an unusual way: by saving some of Edison’s “dying breath” in a test tube that can still be viewed at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. The two great inventors became good friends in 1896 after Edison encouraged Ford, then an aspiring engineer at the Edison Illuminating Company, to pursue his automotive idea. Years later, they owned next-door winter homes in Florida. Ford received the paraffin-sealed test tube — one of eight collected near Edison’s bedside — from Edison’s son Charles.
Two titans of industry:
Thomas Edison nicknamed his first two children “Dot” and “Dash” after the telegraph.
Henry Ford’s first automaker produced just twenty cars during its two-year run from 1899 to 1901.
Shortly before his death, Edison reportedly came out of his coma and said, “It’s very nice over there.”
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