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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.
George Selden conceived -- but didn't build -- a vehicle powered by a two-stroke gasoline engine in 1877, and he received a patent in 1895. The Association of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers enforced Selden's patent, but Henry Ford successfully fought ALAM in court.
SELDEN PATENT, the first and most bitterly contested of all the automobile patents. The original application for a patent on a vehicle propelled by an internal combustion engine was filed in 1879 by George B. Selden of Rochester, New York, and issued in 1895.
Object Details. George Selden's dubious claim that he invented the automobile cast a shadow on the early auto manufacturing industry. His claim rested on a patent application for a "road-engine" that he had filed in 1879.
George B. Selden, the son of an appeals court judge in Rochester, New York, was a bright young man who dutifully studied law at his father’s behest and in 1871 was admitted to the bar as a patent lawyer.
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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.
