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First to develop thermostatic control of water circulation in a motor car. |
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First to locate the hand-brake lever at driver's left. |
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First to use the selective gear shift with the "H" movement. |
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First to use a steering wheel instead of a tiller handle. |
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First to hook up accelerator pedal and hand throttle, now common to all cars. |
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First to patent automobile wheels interchangeable at hub. |
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First to offer a ribbed jacket water cooled cylinder. Packard cars built in 1900 had sheet metal jacket around single cylinder. |
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First to obtain patent on radiator with top and bottom reservoirs with tubes - the universally used radiator of today. |
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First to obtain a patent on the luggage rack used at rear of car. |
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First to use machines for boring both ends of connecting rods with diamonds. |
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First to rifle bore an oil passage in connecting rods for piston pin lubrication. |
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First American company to offer a straight-eight-L-head engine. |
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First American company to offer a V-type, twelve cylinder engine. |
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First American automobile company to build a 24 cylinder engine. |
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First company to build a 1000 horse power aircraft engine. |
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First to build an engine in form of an "X". |
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First to offer an eight cylinder automobile engine with nine main bearings. |
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First to develop and fly a diesel aircraft engine. |
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First American production car to provide four-wheel brakes as standard equipment. |
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First Automobile company to use spiral bevel gears in rear axle. Included the designing of the complicated machinery for cutting the gear teeth. |
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First to offer hypoid gears in rear axle. (1926). |
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First to use the central automatic chassis lubricator system. |
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First to introduce in America the "Trunnion-block" which in its day added to driving safety by eliminating wheel "shimmy". |
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First to offer "ride control" in motor cars - a mechanism for controlling shock absorber activity. |
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First to pioneer the use of and largely responsible for the development of steel backed bearings. |
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First to make use of the double door latch - now universally used. |
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First automobile company to use Light Ray Machine (which calibrates down to one-millionth of an inch) for checking precision tools. |
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First automobile company to use radio amplification for inspecting ball and roller bearings. |
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First to patent and use a striping instrument which greatly simplified and improved the accuracy of striping bodies. |
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First to provide a package compartment in instrument board. |
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First to provide sun visors. |
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First automobile company to standardize labor and material service charges. |
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First to use iron and steel jig for body assembly. |
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First American car to introduce crankshaft vibration damper. |
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First to use aluminum pisons. |
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First to employ weights in ends of front bumper for stabilizing movement of heavy weight cars. |
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First to use metal spring covers. |
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First to use constant action windshield wipers by employing a vacuum pump. |
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First to use lateral stabilizer. |
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First to use built-in under fender cooling tunnels. |
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First to use both rubber and metal inserts in rear springs. |
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First to introduce complete weather-conditioning in production cars. |
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First to use a Fifth Shock Absorber for control of lateral vibrations. |
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First to use electrically controlled overdrive. |
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First to use automatic radiator shutters as standard equipment. |
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First to include front and rear bumpers as standard equipment. |
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First to equip cars with balloon tires as standard equipment. |
