{"id":262,"date":"2026-11-05T00:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T05:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=262"},"modified":"2025-12-20T18:02:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T23:02:01","slug":"george-b-selden-patented-a-new-automobile-engine-in-1895","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=262","title":{"rendered":"George B. Selden Patented a New Automobile Engine in 1895"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11127\" style=\"width: 214px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11127\" class=\"wp-image-11127 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/selden-car-204x300.png\" alt=\"selden car\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11127\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Selden&#8217;s Patent Design<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>George B. Selden<\/strong> <strong>patented the first gasoline-powered automobile in 1895.<\/strong> Now you might think that this is rather a boring event, but you would be wrong. Selden patented this engine after seeing a slightly different one at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition in 1876. He and some partners tried to gain a monopoly over the automobile industry. However, Henry Ford and others won a lawsuit that had lasted over eight years. Ford\u2019s reasonably priced cars won over the market, and Selden lost his monopoly. Children can see Selden\u2019s patent at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/patents\/US549160?dq=549160&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=yNF4UOHfGun00gHr3YGYBQ&amp;ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Automobile.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George B. Selden patented the first gasoline-powered automobile in 1895. Now you might think that this is rather a boring event, but you would be wrong. Selden patented this engine after seeing a slightly different one at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition in 1876. He and some partners tried to gain a monopoly over the automobile <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=262' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4772,4769,2034,4771,4770],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4772","tag-first-gasoline-powered-automobile","tag-george-selden","tag-november-5","tag-philadelphia-centennial-exposition","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29851,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/29851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}