author

Fay Leone Faurote

d. 1938

A clear, practical early 20th-century writer, this author helped explain new technologies to everyday readers and later wrote about both Henry Ford’s industrial ideas and the fast-changing world of aviation.

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A boy's text book on gas engines : a book for boys describing and explaining in simple language the automobile gas engine

A boy's text book on gas engines : a book for boys describing and explaining in simple language the automobile gas engine

by Fay Leone Faurote

About the author

Fay Leone Faurote was an American writer and editor whose work focused on technology, industry, and transportation. Library and archive records connect her with early automotive books including The How and Why of the Automobile (1907) and A Boy's Text Book on Gas Engines (1908), books aimed at making complicated machinery easier to understand for general readers.

Her career also overlapped with major industrial history. Sources identify her as the writer behind My Philosophy of Industry, presented as an authorized interview with Henry Ford, and historical material from The Henry Ford notes that she continued work that became Ford Methods and the Ford Shops after Horace Lucian Arnold’s death.

Faurote also became closely associated with aviation publishing, with records for the Aircraft Year Book linking her name to that field in the 1920s and 1930s. An obituary record indicates she died in 1938 at age 57. No suitable confirmed portrait image was found during this search, so no profile image is included.