A vial containing the air representing Thomas Alva Edison’s last exhalation is a prime draw at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.
Originally known as the Edison Institute for Technology in honor of Ford’s inventor friend, the museum also includes a slab of concrete with Edison’s footprints in addition to more general Americana like antique cars, steam trains, and a McDonald’s arch.
Related Answers
- Where inside a whale can you find ambergris? The valuable substance is found in the stomach of a sperm whale. In the East, the soft, black ambergris is dried and used as a spice; in…
- What did Thomas Edison use as a filament in the first successful electric light bulb? After experimenting with thousands of materials, Thomas Edison discovered in 1879 that a scorched cotton thread, the equivalent of a carbon wire, was the filament he needed.…
- Who said, "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country"? President John F. Kennedy said the line at his inaugural speech. Another form of the quote was spoken by the young Kennedy's headmaster at Choate, a prep…
- In what work did Joseph Conrad define his task as a writer as, "to make you hear, to make you feel—it is, before all, to make you see!"? Joseph Conrad define his task as a writer as, "to make you hear, to make you feel—it is, before all, to make you see!" in the preface…
- What is unusual about Samuel Beckett's 1970 play Breath? The thirty-second piece Breath by Samuel Beckett has no actors and no dialogue.
- How long did it take Stanley to find Livingstone? Henry Morton Stanley, a journalist, was commissioned by the New York Herald in 1871 to find the explorer David Livingstone, who had been missing for two years.…