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Automobile not invented in America, but ...

By Lawrence B. Ebert, Esq.

SecuringInnovation bashed Obama for suggesting the automobile was invented by Americans.

But, then, there is this text on Securing Innovation -->

Steinmetz secured 200 patents in his lifetime and advocated the creation of an affordable electric automobile that would sell for less than $1,000 and could compete with gasoline powered cars like the Model T Ford and the costly Detroit Electric, an electric car created by the Anderson Electric Car Co. in Detroit in 1909. An early consumer advocate and environmentalist, Steinmetz said the electric car would be more economical and less polluting than the expensive and dirty gasoline powered cars.
In a paper Steinmetz authored on the electric car in March 1920, he wrote: "In general, in comparing the electric with the gasolene (sic) car, the advantages of the electric car are: 1) Very low cost of maintenance and repair; 2) Reliability and simplicity of operation and with the current gasoline prices, usually; 3) Lower cost of operation.

Obama's mistake is far more understandable than Lemley saying Gary Boone invented the integrated circuit.

Full post as published by IPBiz on February 25, 2009 (boomark / email).