Henry Ford and Thomas Edison

In January 1914 Ford announced that he planned within the year to begin manufacturing an electric car using a lightweight battery. The New York newspapers however had not realized it when they reported on the plans for the Ford Edison electric car they mostly paid compliments to Edison. A wonderful anecdote illustrates Thomas Edison's level of stoicism his indifference almost to tragedy in deterring his focus on invention and this happens much later in his life. We're gonna talk about how Ford continues to spend an insane amount of money just to honor his friend including donating five million dollars in and Thomas Edison's name  this is taking place in in the early 1900s five million dollars five million dollars a lot today but a hundred years ago