Abstract
"Combustible gas engines? She must have been somewhere when I had one of my many Reid fires."
She—that’s me, the author—had been told that internal combustion engine was the correct term, but in the back-and-forth of Facebook posting, I had slipped and used the incorrect term, and someone had caught me. What do I know about engines? Or that Reid was a kind of engine? Not much. What I do know about is museums, and that is what led me to the Coolspring Power Museum to pick the brains of Paul “Engine Doc” Harvey and his many friends, and to the relatively new Cadillac Museum in Brookville and its founder, Steve Greenberg. In this day of changing technologies, I wanted to find out what the future holds for both museums.
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