On June 11, 1895, Charles E. Duryea receives the first U.S. patent granted to an American inventor for a gasoline-driven automobile.
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Charles Duryea was a visionary, predicting "the advent of the automobile" in his 1882 college thesis.
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Photo of Charles (left) and J. Frank Duryea in the 1894 Duryea gasoline car. By Unknown author - "The Growth of the Automobile Industry in America", The Outing Magazine, volume 51, page 212. From the Google Books archive: original from the University of California, digitized January 25, 2008., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org