Monopoly on Wheels: Henry Ford and the Selden Automobile Patent

by William Greenleaf

In 1895, visionary Rochester, New York, attorney George B. Selden was granted a patent for a "road-carriage" that he had designed but not built. In anticipation of a burgeoning American auto industry, Selden had filed a series of amendments to his application, delaying the process for sixteen years in order to stretch his claim out as long as possible. As a result, the Selden patent covered all gasoline-powered vehicles designed since 1879 and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814335128
• ISBN13: 9780814335123
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"