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History of The Shoals The Henry Ford Wilson Dam Affair |
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| A Clash of Titans--Henry Ford vs. George Norris | ||
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On the T.V.A. website, we learn of the tug-of-war over public vs. private ownership of Wilson Dam and the nitrate plants at Muscle Shoals. President Roosevelt eventually established the principle of federal energy policies that govern such issues as waterway control and hydroelectric energy production that preceded the universal federal control (ownership or regulatory control) over all major energy production. |  |
| Thomas Edison's Novel Ideas on Government Funding of Wilson Dam | ||
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Edison, Henry Ford's sidekick (He accompanied Ford on Ford's second visit to Sheffield in 1921), wrote an article in the New York Times suggesting that the government just print $30 million in currency rather than borrow $30 million and pay back $66 million. |  |
| How Muscle Shoals Figured in Presidential Politics of the 1924 Election | ||
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Henry, in his old age, wasn't above the use of his money and power to get what he wanted, only he went to the President instead of Congress to try to coerce the turnover of a government asset to his private interest. |
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| Early Newsreel Movies About the TVA | ||
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These films produced by the Tennessee Valley Authority were essentially public education (is that also called "propaganda?") about the continued use of millions of dollars to protect and upgrade life in the Tennessee River watershed after Wilson Dam had served its purpose in the nitrates for explosives experiments near the end of World War I. |  |
