. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. SELDEN GASOLINE AUTOMOBILE, 1879 Transferred from the U. S. Patent Office in 1908 (USNM 252678) George B. Selden, patent attorney and inventor of Rochester, N. Y., filed a patent application on May 8, 1879, for a road vehicle powered by an internal-combus- tion engine. This is the model (fig. 25) which was sub- mitted with the application, upon which a patent (No. 549160) was issued finally on November 5, Figure 25. — Patent Office model of Selden automobile, submitted in 1879 and now in the National Museum. Though many pioneer Americ
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. SELDEN GASOLINE AUTOMOBILE, 1879 Transferred from the U. S. Patent Office in 1908 (USNM 252678) George B. Selden, patent attorney and inventor of Rochester, N. Y., filed a patent application on May 8, 1879, for a road vehicle powered by an internal-combus- tion engine. This is the model (fig. 25) which was sub- mitted with the application, upon which a patent (No. 549160) was issued finally on November 5, Figure 25. — Patent Office model of Selden automobile, submitted in 1879 and now in the National Museum. Though many pioneer American automobile manufac- turers and importers were licensed under this patent, others contested its validity. On November 4, 1899, just four years after the issuing of the patent, Selden made a contract with the Electric Vehicle Co., manufacturer of the Columbia electric automobiles at Hartford, Conn. Subse- quently, on March 5, 1903, the Association of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers was formed, with the Electric Vehicle Co. and the Winton Motor-Carriage Co. as two 36. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States National Museum; Smithsonian Institution; United States. Dept. of the Interior. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc. ]; for sale by the Supt. of Docs. , U. S. Govt Print. Off.
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