{"id":4358,"date":"2024-11-26T17:23:33","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T23:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=4358"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:23:33","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T23:23:33","slug":"november-25-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=4358","title":{"rendered":"November 25, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On November 25, 1903, Clyde J. Coleman, received U.S. Patent No. 745,157 on a Means for Operating Motor Vehicles (an electric starter for an automobile engine starter):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-32.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"542\" height=\"870\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-32.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-32.png 542w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-32-187x300.png 187w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 542px) 100vw, 542px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Before the electric starter the engine had to be hand-cranked, However hand cranking frequently resulted in broken thumbs, and occassionally a broken wrist, dislocated shoulder, or worse.  Furthermore increasing engine size was making hand cranking increasingly physically demanding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few years later, Charles F. Kettering and Henry M. Leland, of Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company (DELCO), obtained U.S. Patent No. 1,150,523 on an improved design:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-33.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"478\" height=\"773\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-33.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-33.png 478w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-33-186x300.png 186w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 25, 1903, Clyde J. Coleman, received U.S. Patent No. 745,157 on a Means for Operating Motor Vehicles (an electric starter for an automobile engine starter): Before the electric starter the engine had to be hand-cranked, However hand cranking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=4358\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-patent-of-the-day","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4362,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4358\/revisions\/4362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}