Edison, West Orange, 1902

This image has been floating around the offices here at Hemmings for so long, we’re not sure who sent it to us or when. What we do know, besides the date of the photo, is that it depicts Thomas Edison (and presumably his wife Mina) within Edison’s compound in West Orange, New Jersey (now a […]

RIP, Robert C. Stempel

Longtime GM executive Bob Stempel, who rose to the rank of GM CEO in the Nineties, died Monday at his home in Florida at the age of 77. Most of the obituaries note that Stempel was ousted as GM’s chairman following a stormy two-year tenure that ended in 1992. The boardroom coup that ended in […]