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Originally Posted by davidmash
I'm assuming that the loop holes were intentional in order to delay the approval of the patent thus giving him more time?
Never cared for Ford as a person (from what I have read) but he did completely change the face of transportation and the assembly process.
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That's right David. He kept putting loop holes in to get it sent back to him for correction while keeping HIS patent as first in line. Then at a certain point he decided that someone building a car was coming soon, so he cleaned it up and let it go through.
I was in a huge hurry when I wrote the thumb nail in the original post, so I'm sorry I was not more clear.
You are correct about Henry. I stumbled on a book about him when I was in junior high school and it was intriguing. I have done lots of reading about him since, which is what led to my having the idea of the Selden patent for a Research Paper.
The guy was anti-sematic, a bad parent, stubborn and a zillion other bad traits, but he is (correctly IMHO) credited with putting America on wheels. He was probably even better with his production and manufacturing skills than he was with auto innovation itself.