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May 8, 2024 · When patent lawyer George B. Selden first filed with the US Patent Office for an internal combustion engine on May 8, 1879, it included the application of the device on a four wheel vehicle. Selden named it the Road Engine.
Nov 5, 2019 · George B Selden, a patent lawyer and inventor from Rochester, NY, was granted a US patent (No. 549,160) in late 1895 for an “improved road engine” powered by a “liquid-hydrocarbon engine of the compression type.”
May 8, 2018 · A few years before European automotive pioneers such as Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler introduced their own versions of the “horseless carriage,” a lawyer and inventor from Rochester, New York, named George B. Selden filed the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
Mar 24, 2024 · After years of development and legal battles, George Selden was finally granted a patent for his automobile design on November 5, 1895. The patent, titled “Road Engine,” described a vehicle with an internal combustion engine and a four-wheeled chassis.
The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them. George B. Selden filed the first patent for a combustion-powered automobile in 1879. Selden was a Civil War veteran.
May 8, 2013 · On this date -- May 8, 1879 -- 134 years ago, George B. Selden of Rochester, New York became the first person to file a patent for the gasoline-powered automobile, which he called a "road...
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Feb 17, 2018 · George B. Selden September 14, 1846 8211 January 17, 1922 a lawyer and inventor was granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile on November 5, 1895. George B. Selden was...
