Sidebar #1: Did you know Henry Ford experimented with other configurations for 8 cylinder engines besides a "V" shape?
https://www.macsmotorcitygarage.com/...le-x-8-engine/
This one was designed in seclusion at Greenfield Village, in Edison's Menlo Park laboratory, probably to keep it away from prying eyes at the official Ford engineering facilities.
An original block casting was recently excavated from the Village while doing construction for updates.
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