14/12/2025
Fact! The technical workforce is the life-wire of economic sustenance via industrial revolution in any country regardless of the geographical location.
I was opportuned to be at the Greenfield Village, Dearbon Michigan. This facility is Henry Ford's community of early fathers of American industrial revolution. The humble beginnings of the likes of the Wright brothers of bicycle - airplane fame, Thomas Edison of Menlo Park lab fame, HJ Heinz of Heinz Farmhouse fame and a host of others were transplanted from their different locations to the village. One indelible lesson learnt after a day at the village is this: Peasants and craftsmen in their own rights who were determined in their trades and crafts provided a common pedestal for the explosion that was the industrial growth of America.
If they did so in their own times, what have we offered to the nation and posterity?