The Selden patentIn the discussion of Hiram Maxim’s early experiments, it has been said that Maxim was unacquainted with the work of his predecessors in the field. One important item of early auto history of which Maxim was ignorant was the fact that in 1879 Rochester, New York, patent lawyer named George Baldwin Selden had applied for [...]  |
The Automobile ProgressesIn the last two years of the nineteenth century and the first year of the twentieth century, there was a great increase in the number of automobiles manufactured, and a tremendous awakening of public interest in the automobile. James Rood Doolittle says that more than three hundred companies making automobiles and automobile parts were organized [...] |
