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1. automotivehistory.org › george-selden-automobileMay 8, 1879 - George Selden files US patent for the ...

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   May 8, 2024 · May 8, 2024. Brian Corey. George B. Selden driving an automobile in 1905. 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.

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3. www.edn.com › george-selden-granted-1st-us-patentGeorge Selden granted 1st US patent for an automobile ...

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   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.”. Inspired by George Brayton’s internal-combustion engine that was displayed at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia ...

4. transportationhistory.org › 2018/05/08 › today-inToday in Transportation History – 1879: The First US ...

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   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.

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   When did George B Selden get his car patent?

   • Selden’s patent application, originally filed May 8, 1879, included not only the engine but also its use in a four-wheeled car. Several amendments to the application stretched out the process and delayed the granting of the patent until November 5, 1895. George B Selden (right) drives an early automobile in 1905.

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   What happened to George B Selden's patent?

   • George B Selden (right) drives an early automobile in 1905. In 1899, Selden sold his patent to the EVC (Electric Vehicle Company), which comprised a group of investors. They, in turn, sued the Winton Motor Carriage Company, the largest car manufacturer in the United States, for infringing on the Selden patent just by building gas-powered cars.

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   Why did Henry Ford appeal against the Selden patent?

   • Ford appealed, and on January 10, 1911, one year before the Selden patent was set to expire, won his case based on an argument that the engine used in automobiles was not based on George Brayton’s engine, the engine that Selden had improved, but on the Otto engine.

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   Why did Henry Ford pay Selden $10,000?

   • The company agreed to pay Selden $10,000 for the rights to his patent and also a royalty for every automobile based on his design. Selden and that company, however, had to contend with a drawn-out legal battle over patent infringement with Henry Ford and other competing automobile manufacturers.

   1879: The First US Automobile Patent - Transportation History

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6. cr4.globalspec.com › blogentry › 3787November 5, 1895 - The First U.S. Patent for an Automobile

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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...

7. www.wired.com › 2007 › 11Nov. 5, 1895: First U.S. Automaker Gets Off to Slow Start

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   Nov 5, 2007 · Science. Nov 5, 2007 12:00 PM. Nov. 5, 1895: First U.S. Automaker Gets Off to Slow Start. George Selden and Henry Ford take a spin in a Selden automobile in New York City, circa 1895....

8. www.uh.edu › engines › epi207Selden's Automobile | The Engines of Our Ingenuity

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   Audio. Today, let's talk about patents and public relations. 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.

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   George B. Selden was a patent attorney who never built a car. He received his patent for an updated version liquid-hydrocarbon compression engine, essentially the four wheeled car, that he had completed in 1878, eight years before the Benz auto was introduced as the first car in 1886.