father of Automobile?

Answer 1

George Selden.
He was born September 14, 1846 in Clarkson, New York, died January 17, 1922 in Rochester, New York, was a lawyer and inventor who was granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile, which he invented in 1877.

Henry Ford was the founder of the Ford Motor Company and father of the modern assembly line used in mass production.
He is credited with "Fordism" that is, the mass production of large numbers of inexpensive automobiles using the assembly line,
Henry Ford did not invent the automobile.

Answer 2

Actually, all of you are wrong. The father of the auto was Karl Benz. He invented the first automobile with a gasoline engine in 1886 in Germany. Ford merely mass-produced the auto, introducing it the world.

Answer 3

Karl Benz 1886

Answer 4

Ford didn't invent the Automobile, he invented the assembly line.

Answer 5

Karl Benz

Answer 6

Correction: Fathers. F.E and F.O. Stanley 1896. ( Twins)
Stanley Steamer

Answer 7

1865
Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach first cross paths at the "Bruderhaus" in Reutlingen where Daimler manages the workshops in the engineering works there. The 19-year-old Wilhelm Maybach from Heilbronn, whose parents had been tragically killed, works in the design office there. His extraordinary talent for drawing soon catches Daimler's attention.

1868
Daimler joins the board of the Maschinenbaugesellschaft in Karlsruhe and calls up Maybach barely six months later to work as a technical draughtsman.

1872
Daimler takes over a post as technical director of the Gasmotorenfabrik in Deutz, founded by Nikolaus Otto and Eugen Langen. A short time later, aged 27, Maybach is appointed head of the design office in Deutz, during which time he prepares the four-stroke engine invented by Otto himself in 1876 for series production.

1878
Wilhelm Maybach marries Bertha Habermaas, a friend of Emma Daimler, the wife of Gottlieb Daimler since 1867.

1882
After persistent personal conflicts and disagreements on design matters with Nikolaus Otto, Gottlieb Daimler leaves his post at the Gasmotorenfabrik in Deutz. It is in Cannstatt near Stuttgart that he buys a generously sized property with a villa, and has the garden shed that is part of the property converted to a workshop. Wilhelm Maybach follows shortly afterwards. The aim of both men: to develop a fast-running four-stroke engine that is suitable for universal use.

1883
Daimler's and Maybach's work in the garden shed leads to the development of hot-tube ignition and many other improvements to the internal combustion engine. The patents for these inventions lay the legal cornerstone for their subsequent commercial success.

1884
The test engine reaches the 600 rpm mark for the first time. This is followed in the same year by the "grandfather clock", a petrol-powered engine with a vertical single cylinder intended for use in boats, fire tenders and other equipment.

1885
Testing carried out with the "riding carriage" the precursor of the modern-day motorbike. It is powered by the "grandfather clock" engine.

1886
The engine is fitted in a carriage for the first time, which becomes known as the "motorised carriage". Daimler and Maybach have just started to open up the tremendous potential of individual, motorised transportation.

1887
Operations are moved to a larger production facility in Cannstatt, where mostly engines are manufactured, as well as test vehicles.

1889
Daimler's "wire-wheel car", a lightweight four-wheel car with V2 engine and geared transmission, is unveiled at the World Exhibition in Paris.

1890
The Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft (DMG) is founded. Daimler takes a position as deputy chairman of the Supervisory Board, Maybach is made a member of the Board of Management.

1891
Maybach leaves the firm and later heads a development centre financed by Daimler located in the dance hall of a former hotel in Cannstatt.

1894
DMG is threatened by bankruptcy. Gottlieb Daimler also leaves the firm.

1895
Frederick R. Simms, a British engineer, buys the licensing rights to the Phoenix engine for 350,000 marks, demanding that Daimler and Maybach be reinstated in their previous posts at DMG in return. The 1000th engine is completed at the end of the year.

1897
Maybach brings the Phoenix car with its engine positioned above the front axle up to series production standard.

1900
Gottlieb Daimler dies on March 6. Acting on a suggestion from entrepreneur Emil Jellinek, Wilhelm Maybach starts to make fundamental changes to automotive designs. The result is the 35-hp Mercedes, which goes down in the history books as the first modern-day car.

1901- 1906
Wilhelm Maybach develops engines and chassis in rapid succession to be used in the Mercedes models, as they are now known.

Answer 8

George B. Selden, born September 14, 1846 in Clarkson, New York, died January 17, 1922 in Rochester, New York, was a lawyer and inventor who was granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile, which he invented in 1877. The idea of a horseless carriage was in the air during George's youth, but its practicality was uncertain. In 1859, his father, Judge Henry R. Selden, a prominent Republican attorney, moved to Rochester, New York, where George briefly attended the University of Rochester before dropping out to enlist in the Sixth U.S. Cavalry, Union Army. This was not to the liking of his father who after pulling some strings and having some earnest discussions with his son managed to have him released from duty and enrolled in Yale. George did not do well at Yale in his law studies, preferring the technical studies offered by the Sheffield Scientific Institute, but did manage to finish his course of study and pass the New York bar 1871 and joined his father's practice.

He married shortly thereafter to Clara Drake Woodruff, by whom he had 4 children. He continued his hobby of inventing in a workshop in his father's basement, inventing a typewriter and a hoop making machine.

An interesting note: Selden's father, Henry Selden, was chosen by Abraham Lincoln to be Vice President, but he turned it down (and in light of Lincoln's assassination, Henry Selden would have otherwise been the next American President).

For a time, Selden represented photography pioneer George Eastman in patent matters.

The Selden Patent

See also Association of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers

Inspired by the mammoth internal combustion engine invented by George Brayton displayed at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876, Selden began working on a smaller lighter version, succeeding by 1878 in producing a one cylinder 400 pound version which featured an enclosed crankshaft with the help of Rochester machinist, Frank H. Clement and his assistant William Gomm. He filed for a patent on May 8, 1879. His application included not only the engine but its use in a 4 wheeled car. He then, in a series of transparent legal maneuvers, filed a series of amendments to his application which stretched out the process resulting in a delay of 16 years before the patent, Patent 549,160,[1] was granted on November 5, 1895, the Selden Patent.


Shortly thereafter the fledgling American auto industry began its first efforts and George Selden, despite never actually producing a working model of an automobile, had a credible claim to have patented the automobile. In 1899 he sold his patent rights to William C. Whitney, who proposed manufacturing electric powered taxicabs as the Electric Vehicle Company, EVC, for a royalty of $15 per car with a minimum annual payment of $5,000. Whitney and Shelden then worked together to collect royalties from other budding automobile manufacturers. He was initially successful, negotiating a 3/4 of 1 % royalty on all cars sold by the Association of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers, the ALAM. He began his own car company in Rochester under the name, Selden Motor Car Company.

However, Henry Ford, owner of the Ford Motor Company, founded in Detroit, Michigan in 1903, and four other car makers resolved to contest the patent infringement suit filed by Selden and EVC. The legal fight lasted 8 years generating a case record of 14,000 pages. The case was heavily publicized in the newspapers of the day and ended in a victory for Selden. In his decision, the judge wrote that the patent covered any automobile propelled by an engine powered by gasoline vapor. Posting a bond of $350,000, Ford appealed and on January 10, 1911 won his case based on an argument that the engine used in automobiles was not based on George Brayton's engine, the Brayton engine which Selden had improved, but on the Otto engine.

This stunning defeat, with only 1 year left to run on the patent, destroyed Selden's income stream. He focused production of his car company on trucks, renaming his company the Selden Truck Sales Corporation. It survived in that form until 1930 when it was purchased by the Bethlehem Truck Company. Selden suffered a stroke in 1921 and died at 78 on January 17, 1922. He was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester. It is estimated he received several hundred thousand dollars in royalties, but, of course, missed out on a potential income of millions.

Answer 9

mercedes benz made the first car, but henry ford made the first assembly line, and made cars on it.

Answer 10

ford