Which came first: The Ford Model T or the turbocharger? You might be surprised—just like I was when I googled it—to learn that the turbo is actually a bit older. Swiss engineer Alfred Buchi may have ...

Henry Ford famously designed the Model T to be simple, reliable, and affordable for the masses. What he didn’t design it for was forced induction. But a century later, the mad scientists over at ...

To mark the 250th anniversary of the United States, we’re cataloging 25 objects that define the country’s history. When the Ford Model T first hit the road in the early 1900s, it didn’t just change ...

The ferry broke down at exactly the wrong moment for everyone except Henry Ford. On June 8, 1909, two stripped-down Ford Model Ts rolled onto a little wooden ferry at Glasgow, Mo., and crossed the ...

In a high-security room on the third floor of a factory in Detroit’s bustling Milwaukee Junction industrial neighborhood in 1907, six men and a 14-year-old boy changed the world. Henry Ford in his ...