Dean Kamen's House Rivals Best Industrial Museums

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 theNortheast version of the HenryFord Museum in Dearborn, MI.In fact, the 40-ton steam engine that graces the residence's soaring lobby waspurchased from the Ford Museum. Design News Editor-in-Chief John Dodge interviewed Kamen in late October andby 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 ofthe contents in Kamen's unique home, whose primary theme embraces machinery circathe industrial revolution. 

DekaResearch and Development Corp., employing 200 engineers working on a variety ofinnovations, was founded by Kamen in 1982. Kamen, 2004 DesignNews Engineer of the Year and holder of 440 U.S. and foreign patents, isconsistently ranked in DN surveys as one of the greatest engineers andinnovators of our time. He appropriately arrived for the interview from the Dekaoffices in his own Enstrom 480helicopter.

The photos in the galleries below (please scroll down to view galleries) show his partiality to engines. Thepurpose of the machines and Americanaare sometimes obvious or not. The galleries start with my arrival by car followedby 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 [email protected].