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Dean Kamen's House Rivals Best Industrial Museums

Slideshows provide an in-depth tour of Kamen's unique home, which boasts a myriad of industrial artifacts

John Dodge, Editor-in-Chief -- Design News, November 13, 2008

Read John Dodge's in-depth interview with Dean Kamen!

 

Inventor Dean Kamen's home in Bedford, NH is nothing less a mini-Smithsonian or the Northeast version of the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI. In fact, the 40-ton steam engine that graces the residence's soaring lobby was purchased from the Ford Museum. Design News Editor-in-Chief John Dodge interviewed Kamen in late October and by sheer luck, the interview location was switched from the Deka offices in Manchester to his large hilltop home 10 miles away. Dodge snapped about 100 photos of the contents in Kamen's unique home, whose primary theme embraces machinery circa the industrial revolution. 

Deka Research and Development Corp., employing 200 engineers working on a variety of innovations, was founded by Kamen in 1982. Kamen, 2004 Design News Engineer of the Year and holder of 440 U.S. and foreign patents, is consistently ranked in DN surveys as one of the greatest engineers and innovators of our time. He appropriately arrived for the interview from the Deka offices in his own Enstrom 480 helicopter.

The photos in the galleries below (please scroll down to view galleries) show his partiality to engines. The purpose of the machines and Americana are sometimes obvious or not. The galleries start with my arrival by car followed by his in a jet-powered helicopter and a myriad of industrial artifacts.
Take a tour through Dean Kamen's house below, and let us know what you think at john.dodge@reedbusiness.com.

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Dean Kamen's House and Helicopter

The gate leading up the steep quarter mile hill to the Kamen house

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Dean Kamen's Big Oscar

A 40-ton steam engine greets visitors in the home's lobby. It came out of the side-wheeler towboat Oscar and is being converted into a Stirling Engine.

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Dean Kamen's Engines and Machines

One of the first piston-less fluid power units, from Caterpillar

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Dean Kamen's Basement Shop

Panorama of the basement shop

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Modified Think with a Stirling Engine (in a garage near Dean Kamen’s home)

Kamen's Think electric car has been modified with a Stirling engine.

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Dean Kamen's Americana

Dean Kamen's clock
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