Danette heps us to this story from NPR:
This year is the 100th anniversary of perhaps the most famous car ever made. The first Ford Model T--also known as the Tin Lizzie--rolled out of Detroit in 1908. It put America on wheels and helped forge a manufacturing revolution.
At Ford's Piquette Avenue Plant, in a room about 12 feet by 15 feet in size, Henry Ford and a handful of engineers worked to build what Ford called a "universal car."
They decided it would run on gasoline. Both steam power and electricity were options at the time, but gas-powered cars were easier to refuel and quicker to start.
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