Posts have been slow because I'm devoting more time to writing my dissertation. I have also been analyzing the huge amount of data that my excavations last field season collected. However, this post relates directly to my Industrial Archaeologist followers. Over December, I had the opportunity to take a tour of the Henry Ford Museum at Greenfield Village in Detroit, Michigan. It is probably my favorite museum thus far on industrialization that I have been in. More importantly, it contains steam engines from the very birth of the Industrial Revolution in Europe and here in the United States. Take a look at these great photos from the museum!
The Newcomen Atmospheric engine that is on display here, is the only one known in existence and is original. Due to this, it is not without controversy over which country should have it. England has laid claim to it, while the Henry Ford Museum here in the United States claims they purchased it legally. This is just one of many cultural artifacts around the world that call into question of ownership due to 19th and 20th-century procurement that was often completed between private individuals.
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