Curious about the Kennedy Presidential Limousine or the Soybean Car? Need information on the lives of Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, or the Wright Brothers? Want to know where you can obtain Ford Motor Company parts drawings? The Popular Research Topics are here to answer your questions. Click on the links below to learn about these topics and more. The staff of the Benson Ford Research Center will continue to add new information for popular research topics, so check back often for updates.

The Henry Ford

• Origins of The Henry Ford
  
  
• Collections.TheHenryFord.org website
  
  
• The Allegheny Locomotive
  
  
• Kennedy Presidential Limousine

Historic Innovators

• Thomas Edison
  
  
• R. Buckminster Fuller
  
  
• The Wright Brothers
  
  
• Henry Ford
  
  
  • The Life of Henry Ford
    
    
  • Henry Ford and Ford Family Bibliography
    
    
  • Soybean Car
    
    
  • Henry Ford Quotations
    
    
  • The Vagabonds

Ford Motor Company

• Chronology
  
  
• Brazilian Rubber Plantations
  
  
• Vehicle Production Records
  
  
• Ford Motor Company Parts Drawings
  
  
• Photograph and Film Department
  
  
• Sociological Department and English School

There are many ways to access historical information at The Henry Ford. A good place to start searching our various databases is http://www.thehenryford.org/research/collections.aspx. Our curators, archivists, educators and researchers regularly expand the information available here. If you can not find what you need through the resources linked here, please contact our Offsite Research Services. Also, when on campus we invite you to visit our Public Reading Room in the Benson Ford Research Center.