next, we visit the henry ford in deerborn, michigan, to see the garage where ford built his first car, the quadricycle. jim johnson then shows us ford's childhood home where he was born in 1863. both buildings were located to greenfield village, the living history section of the henry ford. >> my name's jim johnson. i'm the cau curator. we're here with a 1914 model t, and it's just one of the things you get to experience here in greenfield village. behind me is the bagley shed, and this stood behind his house in detroit, a rented house where he developed his first gasoline engine and eventually his first car in 1896. and then we'll be having a look at his birthplace, which was also brought here to greenfield village much later on in his life. this is the -- what we call the bagley shed. this stood behind the duplex on bagley avenue where henry and cla clara lived in the 1890s. at that point, henry was a pretty high-ranking steam engineer at the edison illuminating company. he also had a big interest in the international combustion engine and the whole concept of an automobile, which w

next we continue our tour of the driving america exhibit at the henry ford museum in deerborn, michigan. we see how auto manufacturing changed during world war ii. we'll learn how vehicles evolved based on customer preference and available technology. one of the last models we'll see is a 1983 honda accord, the first honda built in the united states. >> we're standing in front of what the probably the guest's favorite car. if we had to poll some of our visitors, i suspect the winner would be this vehicle here. our 1931 bugatti type 41 royale. bugatti, born in italy and did most of his work in france. and it was a very successful designer of race cars in particular. in the 1920s. but he had hopes in the early 1930s of building cars that were so luxurious that they would be favored by kings, queens, royalty of all sorts in europe and this was the result of that. one of the largest production cars ever built. the wheel base on the car is just massive. something like 170 inches long. it's got an eight cylinders engine and makes for a very long hood. just two seats there in the back which, o

next we tour the railroad exhibit at the henry ford museum in deerborn, michigan. transportation cure rater matt anderson talks about the progression of the american rail. he shows us an 1831 steam locomotive and a 125-foot engine that weighs nearly 40 tons. >> i'm the curator of transportation and we're here at the henry ford museum of transportation. we're substantial doubting in the midst of our railroad unit. the railroad was the major technology back then. an important collection of railroad vehicles. a what we have are railroad locomotives that tell the story from the very earliest days in the 1930's to the early days of the electronic locomotive in the 1920's. behind me is our earliest examples. this is a replica of an 1831 locomotive. the replica was built in 1892. so it in and of itself is pretty historic now. this gives us an idea of what trains would have looked like first coming out of the scene in the late 1820s and early 1830s. it was located in new york state and eventually became a part of the railroad that would become the new york central, one of

next we continue our tour of the driving america exhibit at the henry ford museum in deerborn, michigan. we see how auto manufacturing changed during world war ii.

veteran but in major magazine before that trying to show the prowess of a car that was driving from deerborn, michigan to daytona beach from north to south. we need symbols to signify north and south. how about a u.s. flag and confederate flag. not the stars and bars or the national flag but a battle flag of some description. what that tells me is that by 1900, this flag, its meanings and what i meant to emphasize earlier, i ran over the notes here, that one of the principles of my talk to you today is about tracing the pattern of this flag's history. you have to trace its entire history. the meaning has evolved over time. there hasn't been one meaning replacing another. it's new levels of meaning. the meaning derive from the use. use leads to perception which leads to meaning. so we need to look at the way the flag was used and how that affected the way people perceived it and, therefore, their perception of what it meant. so it went from being a flag of the confederate soldier so a flag of the confederacy. by the turn of the century, beyond the confederacy to a flag of the south, particula