Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-03-08 | Page 2 | The Multiple Inventor

00 THE MULTIPLE INVENTOR There are many macnines of which It Is not possible to name the Imentor, nor tho time or place of the Indention : and this Is picemlnently true of the" automobile In 1S02 Richard Trevl-thlck Trevl-thlck propelled a horseless ehlcle at tho rate of ton miles an hour, for which ho was forbidden the use of the roads A large number of inventions, some of which are In practical use in the automobile of todaj, had been) mndo by 1S45, when the peneumatlc tiro was Invented Indeed tho automobile auto-mobile before that jear had had a ory thoiough trying out, and had been found wanting In 1S55 Richard Dudgeon built a steam roadster with a record of 40 miles an hour Traction Trac-tion englnos were a common sight on our roads long beforo the automobile as we know it came Into use. R. E Olds In 1887 built abuggv driven by a steam engine with a bo'ller of the tubular type which used gasoline as fuel In 1SS9 Serpollct, In France, reIved the flash boiler principle, first developed In 1S25 In 1SC0 Lenoir, In France, patented a ehicle driven Mjy an explosive gas engine The real father of tho modern automobllo w'as Gottfried Daimler, who In 18S4 patented patent-ed a road vehicle drlvon by a high speed Internal combustion engine From that tirao he development of the automobile was comparatively rapid, but Is was not till in the nineties of tho last century that It began to be cqmmon, and Its use as an oidlnary vehicle may be said to begin with the twontleth century. Even a list ot the names of those who hde contributed to the perfecting of the horseless carriage would require more space than we have at our disposal The Christian Hciald