 | Henry Ford, Samuel Crowther - 1922 - 312 頁
...taken out to my museum—a room out at Dearborn that holds a great number of my mechanical treasures. The Edison Company offered me the general superintendency...automobile. I chose the automobile, or rather I gave up the job—there was really nothing in the way of a choice. For already I knew that the car was bound to... | |
 | 1922 - 818 頁
...taken out to my museum — a room out at Dearborn that holds a great number of my mechanical treasures. The Edison Company offered me the general superintendency...— there was really nothing in the way of a choice. For already I knew that the car was bound to be a success. I quit my job on August 15, 1899, and went... | |
 | Vaclav Smil - 2003 - 452 頁
...was the coming thing. And the Edison Company offered him the general superintendency but "only on the condition that I would give up my gas engine and devote myself to something really useful" (Ford 1929, pp. 34-35). Although they cost more than the internal combustion cars, by 1900 electric... | |
 | Vaclav Smil - 2005 - 368 頁
...to his experiments with internal combustion and that its executives offered to hire him "only on the condition that I would give up my gas engine and devote myself to something really useful" (Ford 1922:34). And three years before the Wright brothers took off above the dunes at Kitty Hawk in... | |
 | Henry Ford - 2007 - 297 頁
...taken out to my museum — a room out at Dearborn that holds a great number of my mechanical treasures. The Edison Company offered me the general superintendency...company but only on condition that I would give up ray gas engine and devote myself to something really useful. I had to choose between my job and my... | |
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The Edison Company offered me the general superintendency of the company but only on condition that I would give up my gas engine and devote myself to something really useful. I had to choose between my job and my automobile. I chose the automobile, or... 