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Transcript
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NARRATOR: Nothing affected American life more than the automobile and the assembly line. In the 1920s Henry Ford's goal at the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village was to preserve the evidence of American innovation and ordinary genius.
MARJORIE SCHWARZER: He actually buys up buildings from other towns and transports them to Greenfield Village. So he buys the building where Thomas Edison invents the lightbulb, and he even buys soil samples from this building so that he can transport not only the building but also the soil.
[Music out]
NARRATOR: Nothing affected American life more than the automobile and the assembly line. In the 1920s Henry Ford's goal at the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village was to preserve the evidence of American innovation and ordinary genius.
MARJORIE SCHWARZER: He actually buys up buildings from other towns and transports them to Greenfield Village. So he buys the building where Thomas Edison invents the lightbulb, and he even buys soil samples from this building so that he can transport not only the building but also the soil.
[Music out]
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