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Jan Józef Ignacy Lukasiewicz |
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He was a Polish pharmacist who devised the first method of distilling kerosene from seep oil, oil that seeps up to the surface. He was the founder of the Polish oil industry and one of the pioneers of oil industry in the world.. Among his achievements were the construction of modern kerosene lamp in 1853, founding of the first oil well, 1854, in Poland, and the building of the first oil refinery in the world in 1856. Gasoline was a by product of the refining and was considered useless and was allowed to flow into the streams. |
Karl Benz |
Dr. Rudolf Diesel |
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Karl Friedrich Benz was a German engine designer and mechanical engineer, generally regarded as the inventor of the gasoline-powered automobile. Other German contemporaries, Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach, also worked independently on the same type of invention, but Benz patented his work first and, after that, patented all of the processes that made the internal combustion engine feasible for use in automobiles. In 1879 Benz was granted a patent for his first engine, which he designed in 1878. He was the first person to patent an automobile using the combustion engine. Dr. Rudoolf Diesel invented the diesel engine that used what we now call "Alternative Fuel". His first fuel was peanut oil. |
This was America's first Hummer
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The 1866 Dudgeon steam wagon is one of the earliest self-propelled road vehicles built in America. It resembles a small locomotive, but it has a steering apparatus and seats for a driver and eight passengers. Richard Dudgeon, a machinist who became known for his commercially produced hydraulic jacks, designed and built the steam wagon because he wished to end the abuse and mistreatment of horses. It is a small locomotive, but it has a steering apparatus and seats for a driver and eight passengers. How would you like it to be sputtering along at ten miles an hour on one of the little gasoline cars and look back to see this behometh coming up behind you at twenty-five MPH? |
The Father of the American Automobile
John William Lambert Inventor of the First American Gasoline Engine Driven Automobile in 1891 and founder of the Ohio Buggy Co. making the Lambert Automobiles |
The Father of the Automobile Industry
Ranson E. Olds |
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Charles Duryea |
Duryea Motor Wagon Company of Springfield, Ma. and Peroia, Il.
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Frank Duryea |
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Elwood Haynes |
Thomas B. Jeffery |
Henry Ford |
If Henry Ford did not make the first automobile and was not the first one to use the assembly line, then from what did he earn his reputation? He improved the assembly line with a conveyer. His first two companies failed, but in 1903, he and his partner formed the Ford Motor Co. which became the most successful company in the industry. He was a a great promoter of his automobile and soon they were being sold all over the country. He was the first to franchise his product. He fought and won a huge court decision against a block of makers that wanted to control the market. For this, he became a giant in the business. Most of all he loved his workers and gave them such benefits that his company was the one to ever have strike. He was the backbone of the industry. Henry Ford
James W. Packard |
David Buick
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Alexander Winton |
Henry Leland |
William"Billy" Durant |
Charles W. Nash |