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George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
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George B. Selden
American patent lawyer and inventor of a version of the automobile
George Baldwin Selden was an American patent lawyer and inventor from New York who was granted a U.S. patent for an automobile in 1895.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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Type of legal protection for an invention
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