Have you ever admired someone so much that you captured their final, dying breath in a test tube to keep around your house forever? No? Well, you must not take life advice from Henry Ford – the man who gave the world the first gas-powered automobile.
Legend states that, in order to remember his hero, Thomas Edison, he had Edison’s son bottle his father’s last breath and give it to him as a keepsake, which you can visit in the Henry Ford Museum, if you’re into that sort of thing.
The weird story starts back in the late 1800s when Ford was an employee at Edison’s company where he was he was a chief engineer. In his free time ... Read even more