Video || The George Washington Carver Story | The Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation [3m 31s]

George Washington Carver was an American agricultural scientist and inventor who promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion. He was one of the most prominent black scientists of the early 20th Century. ~ Wikipedia

The George Washington Carver Story

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In this segment of The Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation, Mo Rocca meets with Debra A. Reid, Curator of Agriculture and the Environment at The Henry Ford, to explore agriculture [and] the work [of] scientist George Washington Carver.

Mo and Deb met in the George Washington Carver cabin in Greenfield Village. Henry Ford built the cabin in 1942 to honor his friend, agricultural scientist George Washington Carver. The cabin was based on Carver’s recollections of the slave cabin in Missouri in which he was born in 1864.

In 1942, Henry Ford showed his admiration for his friend and colleague George Washington Carver by naming a Ford Motor Company nutrition laboratory after him. This was appropriate: Carver had dedicated his career to experimental agriculture and to improving farmer nutrition and health as well as crop yields. Though frail, Carver traveled to Dearborn for the dedication. Edsel Ford was also present.

Carver spent his career at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, advocating for new crops, such as peanuts, that would enrich both Southern farmers and Southern soils

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