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Announcer 1 next, in American History tv exclusive. Our cities tour visits lansing, michigan, where we learn more about its unique history and literary life. For eight is now, we have traveled to u. S. Cities bringing Historic Sites to our viewers. You can watch more of our visit at cspan. Org citiestour. He was a pioneer. State not until the legislature designated this area as the new capital that he came with these other folks and helped build the capital. They had a slightly more sensible approach. We had nothing here. There was no transportation. They had seven months to build a veryal cit...

Have the state capital, and we have automobile manufacturing, those three components have kept lansing very successful, it all started with building this. He was one of the founders of the automobile industry, he moved here with his family when he was about 16 years old and his father had a Machine Company and their apparent additions and actually build small and, in steam, engines that is when he became familiar with the manufacturing process, this we are talking about the late 1800s and frankly he hated horses and he said there has to be a better way to get around a horse so he was tinkering...

Wealth of strong manufacturing, a lot of it based in the building of carriage bodies but also in building iron stoves and Railroad Cars and wield, so detroit understood the manufacturing process but they also understood had a steel and iron and wood and rubber. Detroit had all of those talents right here in the designers and tool makers in the that in talk to make an automobile. So why dont we go inside and see the first car to travel on the street of detroit. So what we are looking at here looks very much like an oldfashioned right again, we just dont have a horse in front of, it in fact hors...

He was one of the founders of the Automobile Industry in the United States. He moved here with his family when he was about 16 and his father had a machine temporary. They repaired machines and built small steam engines. Thats where he became familiar with the manufacturing process. We are talking about the late 1800s. Frankly, he hated horses. He said theres got to be a better way to get around than a horse. He was tinkering in his fathers shop trying to build something that would be selfpropelled. Behind me is a three wheel car he built. It was a Steam Powered car and did not work very well....

Is learning about the citys history. It was here that olds started they oldsmobile corporation. Up next, we will take you inside the museum to learn more. Car manufacturing in a city is very important to us. That industry is one of the backbones of lansing with Michigan State university and the state capital and we have automobile manufacturing. Those components have kept lansing a very successful town. It started with r. E. And building this. He was one of the founders of the Automobile Industry in the united states. He moved here with his family when he was about 16 and his father had a Mach...