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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
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Dean Kamen's Big Oscar
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Dean Kamen's Engines and Machines
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Dean Kamen's Basement Shop
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Modified Think with a Stirling Engine (in a garage near Dean Kamen’s home)
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Dean Kamen's Americana
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Does anyone live in this house?, it looks too tidy!
J Mason - 2008-19-11 11:59:57 EST -
I saw this in Wired magazine and have always wanted more pictures. Unfortunately, I will continue to want because the gallery/slideshow/pictures posted by design news are too small to be of any use to me. I can't be the only one with this complaint.
Jeff Mizener - 2008-19-11 06:25:53 EST -
The unidentified object is indeed a telescope of the Dobsonian variety.
Ken Lillemo - 2008-17-11 06:45:47 EST -
I would say the unidentified object is a type of telescope. It doesn't need a tube when used at night so a framework suffices. Great collection!
Ritchie williams - 2008-17-11 06:29:45 EST -
This was fantastic!!!!
Heidi Stephens - 2008-14-11 03:18:29 EST
