Comments on: "My Favorite Museum Exhibit": Tesla's death mask http://boingboing.net/2012/01/31/my-favorite-museum-exhibit-11.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sat, 25 May 2013 22:41:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Bozana Wilmot http://boingboing.net/2012/01/31/my-favorite-museum-exhibit-11.html#comment-1336524 Bozana Wilmot Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:23:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=141590#comment-1336524 We wouldn't have what we have now, if it wasn't for Nikola Tesla and his inventions. Stuff Eddison and his jealous rages and Marconi for pinching Nikola's work which got proven in courts that Nikola Tesla was the original inventor of the radio and telephone. From a fellow Serb We wouldn’t have what we have now, if it wasn’t for Nikola Tesla and his inventions. Stuff Eddison and his jealous rages and Marconi for pinching Nikola’s work which got proven in courts that Nikola Tesla was the original inventor of the radio and telephone.

From a fellow Serb

]]> By: jtiii http://boingboing.net/2012/01/31/my-favorite-museum-exhibit-11.html#comment-1333928 jtiii Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:43:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=141590#comment-1333928 Yeah, I went with my kids (daughter - 7, son - 9) and my son looked at this and asked how they could have possibly gotten his last breath.  After thinking about it for a few seconds, I replied that Ford had said to Edison "hey, breathe into this vial" and then strangled him and that's how he died.   My daughter went wide-eyed until my son said "Daaad! C'mon" and then they both started cracking up.  Oh, and I'm just remembering that this was the trip where when we got out of the car in the almost empty parking lot (i.e. no traffic)  and I told my son to hold my daughter's hand and to start for the door.  Knowing that holding hands was for safety he said incredulously "Her?!  What good is SHE gonna do me?!" Yeah, I went with my kids (daughter – 7, son – 9) and my son looked at this and asked how they could have possibly gotten his last breath.  After thinking about it for a few seconds, I replied that Ford had said to Edison “hey, breathe into this vial” and then strangled him and that’s how he died.   My daughter went wide-eyed until my son said “Daaad! C’mon” and then they both started cracking up.  Oh, and I’m just remembering that this was the trip where when we got out of the car in the almost empty parking lot (i.e. no traffic)  and I told my son to hold my daughter’s hand and to start for the door.  Knowing that holding hands was for safety he said incredulously “Her?!  What good is SHE gonna do me?!”

]]> By: nixiebunny http://boingboing.net/2012/01/31/my-favorite-museum-exhibit-11.html#comment-1333893 nixiebunny Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:07:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=141590#comment-1333893 And yet Tesla's power distribution system is used to power the Ford museum. And yet Tesla’s power distribution system is used to power the Ford museum.

]]> By: Ralph Krawczyk Jr http://boingboing.net/2012/01/31/my-favorite-museum-exhibit-11.html#comment-1333502 Ralph Krawczyk Jr Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:18:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=141590#comment-1333502 Oh, Ford was totally into Edison... TOTALLY. After a visit to the museum you feel like you need a shower after viewing several photos with Ford gazing longly at Edison. Despite that, The Henry Ford is an awesome place to go hang out and get your history on. Oh, Ford was totally into Edison… TOTALLY. After a visit to the museum you feel like you need a shower after viewing several photos with Ford gazing longly at Edison. Despite that, The Henry Ford is an awesome place to go hang out and get your history on.

]]> By: John Ridley http://boingboing.net/2012/01/31/my-favorite-museum-exhibit-11.html#comment-1333475 John Ridley Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:52:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=141590#comment-1333475 They do make a big deal out of Edison.  And Edison is an important figure in the time frame that the Henry Ford is primarily dealing with.  We're members at the museum and go there a few times a year.  I generally keep my mouth shut but I have gotten into a few conversations with other patrons along the lines of "Edison was a smart guy, but also was actually quite the asshole, and his success was largely based on the work of his employees, and of brutal enforcement of his monopolies."  He actually hired his own thugs to go out and destroy equipment built by competitors for stuff he had patents on. They do make a big deal out of Edison.  And Edison is an important figure in the time frame that the Henry Ford is primarily dealing with.  We’re members at the museum and go there a few times a year.  I generally keep my mouth shut but I have gotten into a few conversations with other patrons along the lines of “Edison was a smart guy, but also was actually quite the asshole, and his success was largely based on the work of his employees, and of brutal enforcement of his monopolies.”  He actually hired his own thugs to go out and destroy equipment built by competitors for stuff he had patents on.

]]> By: coryf http://boingboing.net/2012/01/31/my-favorite-museum-exhibit-11.html#comment-1333446 coryf Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:34:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=141590#comment-1333446 <blockquote>So I think it's very telling that there's just one tiny case related to Tesla — arguably Edison's 'Apollo Creed' to Tesla's 'Rocky' — and it mainly houses his death mask almost like a trophy.</blockquote>I wouldn't read much into it.  They've also got the chair that Lincoln was shot in. The Henry Ford Museum really IS America's attic.  There's old furniture, a train, old cars, old clocks, jewelry, a dynamtion house, a light bulb manufacturing line, old steam generators, and aircraft.  None of these things predates the founding of this country, and most of which is fairly modern.  (Last 100-150 years)

So I think it’s very telling that there’s just one tiny case related to Tesla — arguably Edison’s ‘Apollo Creed’ to Tesla’s ‘Rocky’ — and it mainly houses his death mask almost like a trophy.

I wouldn’t read much into it.  They’ve also got the chair that Lincoln was shot in.

The Henry Ford Museum really IS America’s attic.  There’s old furniture, a train, old cars, old clocks, jewelry, a dynamtion house, a light bulb manufacturing line, old steam generators, and aircraft.  None of these things predates the founding of this country, and most of which is fairly modern.  (Last 100-150 years)

]]> By: Noctilucent Studios http://boingboing.net/2012/01/31/my-favorite-museum-exhibit-11.html#comment-1333432 Noctilucent Studios Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:21:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=141590#comment-1333432 Was it BoingBoing where I saw a post about a couple who had a whole collection of deathmasks of the famous? Was it BoingBoing where I saw a post about a couple who had a whole collection of deathmasks of the famous?

]]> By: ROSSINDETROIT http://boingboing.net/2012/01/31/my-favorite-museum-exhibit-11.html#comment-1333400 ROSSINDETROIT Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:02:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=141590#comment-1333400 Henry Ford moved Edison's entire Menlo Park NJ lab to the Greenfield Village outdoor museum that's part of The Henry Ford.  Among other historic buildings that Ford collected is the Wright Bros' bicycle shop. Henry Ford moved Edison’s entire Menlo Park NJ lab to the Greenfield Village outdoor museum that’s part of The Henry Ford.  Among other historic buildings that Ford collected is the Wright Bros’ bicycle shop.

]]> By: KNHaw http://boingboing.net/2012/01/31/my-favorite-museum-exhibit-11.html#comment-1333394 KNHaw Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:57:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=141590#comment-1333394 In Tim Powers' novel Expiration Date, he notes that Ford had saved Edison's last breath in a glass vial and that it's in the museum now.  That becomes a major plot point throughout the book, allowing Edison to come back from beyond.  Obviously, the place tickles Powers' love for the bizarre as well. In Tim Powers’ novel Expiration Date, he notes that Ford had saved Edison’s last breath in a glass vial and that it’s in the museum now.  That becomes a major plot point throughout the book, allowing Edison to come back from beyond.  Obviously, the place tickles Powers’ love for the bizarre as well.

]]> By: ROSSINDETROIT http://boingboing.net/2012/01/31/my-favorite-museum-exhibit-11.html#comment-1333388 ROSSINDETROIT Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:54:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=141590#comment-1333388 Agreed on The Henry Ford (as it's now called).  The place is enormous.  And filled with an astonishing variety of exhibits.  Locomotives, coffee pots, residential interiors, clocks, furniture, fabrics, industrial machines.  An entire power plant from an auto factory was reconstructed inside.  And steam engines dating back hundreds of years.   And of course cars, cars, cars and more cars. Agreed on The Henry Ford (as it’s now called).  The place is enormous.  And filled with an astonishing variety of exhibits.  Locomotives, coffee pots, residential interiors, clocks, furniture, fabrics, industrial machines.  An entire power plant from an auto factory was reconstructed inside.  And steam engines dating back hundreds of years.  
And of course cars, cars, cars and more cars.

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