FREE THE FORGOTTEN FATHER PDF Thomas A Smail | none | 01 Jul 2001 | Wipf & Stock Publishers | 9781579105426 | English | Eugene, United States The forgotten father | endeavors His name graces not a single vehicle from Ford, Chrysler, or General Motors, but if one person can be said to have started the domestic American automobile industry, a strong The Forgotten Father could be made for Benjamin Briscoe. He provided the startup funds for the original car companies that, in time, became the basis for two of the Big Three The Forgotten Father, and he almost took control of the third. His father started a successful company, Michigan Nut and Bolt, that produced fasteners for equipment using a machine of his own design. He then sold that business to the American Can Company The Forgotten Father he could form a new enterprise, Detroit Galvanizing and Sheet Metal Works, to exploit a machine he had The Forgotten Father for making corrugated pipe. His product range soon expanded to include sheet-metal parts for stoves and ranges. Two years later, Briscoe was approached by Ransom E. Olds to manufacture an improved cooling system for the original curved-dash Oldsmobile. Briscoe agreed to make radiators, but a year earlier his firm had its own crisis of survival. In desperate need of operating capital and able The Forgotten Father to find a small loan locally, Ben Briscoe took a train to New York City. Not only did Briscoe brashly talk his way into a meeting with financiers at J. That funding allowed his company to make radiators, fenders, and gas tanks for Oldsmobile, and also established a relationship with the Morgan firm that would help Briscoe in his automotive ventures. Making those car parts for Oldsmobile infected Briscoe with automobile fever. It had to run its course. Before the two The Forgotten Father them got The Forgotten Father with motorcars, Briscoe had become acquainted with David Dunbar Buick, another Detroit automotive pioneer. Briscoe, as mentioned, was in the sheet-metal business, and Buick was a successful maker of plumbing fixtures, with 13 patents to his credit. Business took off when Buick perfected a method for bonding porcelain to metal, capitalizing on demand for kitchen sinks, bathtubs, and toilets just as Americans transitioned from privies and outhouses to indoor plumbing. By latethough, he had run out of funds and extended all of his credit from suppliers like Briscoe Manufacturing. The Forgotten Father had made some motorcars, but his shaky financing kept him from making that key demonstration model. By then, Briscoe had become a bit of an automobile enthusiast. According to that deal, Briscoe would then own the completed automobile, though Buick could use it to raise additional funds to start manufacturing. Buick completed the demonstration motorcar in the spring of but pleaded with Briscoe for more financing. That engine would eventually make Buick a success, but at the time Briscoe was not convinced. When he returned from a trip to Europe and found out that the principals of the Flint Wagon Works were looking to get into the automobile business, Briscoe engineered the sale of Buick Motor Company. Less than a year later, William Durant would take control of Buick, making it the foundation of General Motors. InMaxwell-Briscoe sold just 10 cars. Two years later it was the fifth-largest car company in the United States, with three factories The Forgotten Father sales totaling automobiles. Those factories, in Tarrytown, New York; Pawtucket, Rhode Island; and Chicago, had limited capacity, so Maxwell-Briscoe built a large, new factory in New Castle, Indiana which ended The Forgotten Father producing cars and car parts for over a century. ByMaxwell-Briscoe was the third largest car company in America, selling automobiles in that year alone. Despite the promise of the young automobile industry, the early 20th century was not an The Forgotten Father time to start a manufacturing business. Banks were not regulated nor deposits insured and, as The Forgotten Father above, a bank failure could wipe out its depositors. Financial panics were not The Forgotten Father. Briscoe knew how precarious things could be. Briscoe then tried to buy Ford Motor Company. Briscoe had even arranged financing from the backers of the failed Electric Vehicle Company who wanted to get back into the automobile business, this time The Forgotten Father gasoline power. As it turned out, though, Columbia was in poor shape and Dayton, which made the Stoddard-Dayton automobile, was a money pit. Bycreditors took over U. Motor and Ben Briscoe left the company. Maxwell survived under the management of former Ford associate Walter Flanders. Byhowever, Maxwell was in The Forgotten Father again. This time the financial backers picked former Buick president and then-general manager of Willys- Overland, Walter P. Chrysler, to save the company. Chrysler, perhaps the most competent automobile executive ever, was wanted so badly that the financiers allowed him to keep his job at Willy-Overland, running both companies at the same time. Chrysler used Maxwell to develop a new The Forgotten Father, the first Chrysler-branded automobile, even before launching the Chrysler Corporation. He then founded the Briscoe Motor Corporation, with a factory in Jackson, Michigan, eventually making it one of the 20 largest car companies in the The Forgotten Father States. He sold his interest in Briscoe Motor Corporation and permanently left the automobile industry. He started a Canadian company refining crude oil with a process he invented, and mined gold and other minerals in Colorado. Briscoe eventually retired to a acre estate in Florida where he experimented with tung trees. He can very well be credited with founding two of the Big Three, even apart from almost owning Ford. Few individuals have made a more lasting impact on the automobile industry, but who today remembers Benjamin Briscoe? A Story About. Your weekly dose of car news from Hagerty in your inbox. See more newsletters Thanks for signing up. Sign up. More on this topic. Hagerty Community Sam, a year-old car enthusiast, seeks your advice Sajeev Mehta. Magazine Features Can this man save Pininfarina? Brett Berk. Magazine Features How an eclectic restoration shop became the Miller authority overnight Cameron Neveu. Read next Up next: The Forgotten Father dreamed of owning a concept? The Forgotten Prayer of the Father | The Catholic Gentleman The men pulled her away and started loading boxes. Then, with about a third of the files gone, they began to relax their guard. 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Instead he decided to go to New York City, armed with a few introductions, and try to either find a job with the great Thomas Edison or make a living writing for magazines. He was not yet married; Thaddeus Trott did not want a sonin-law who admitted to holding the extraordinary notion that voices could be sent great distances without wires. The Forgotten Father York was a disappointment. Fessenden sold only a few magazine articles and repeatedly failed to get a job with Edison. During his lunch hours he studied electrical theory and analytical mechanics and worked out ways to do the testing faster. Before long he rose to inspecting engineer. After a few weeks he asked Edison about his future. I have had a lot of chemists. But none of them got results. I want you to take it up. He had been substituting chlorine for hydrogen in natural materials to reduce their flammability. Whenever a project reached a critical phase, Edison and his assistants worked around the clock, catnapping on laboratory tables whenever they could snatch a few minutes. And while such crises were The Forgotten Father unusual, for Fessenden even normal times were strenuous enough. A The Forgotten Father workday started at A. Then he The Forgotten Father work until five, when he joined Kennelly again, this time for a fifteen-minute workout at a nearby gymnasium before going to their boardinghouse for supper. At P. The Forgotten Father next year,Edison ran into deep financial trouble and laid off most of his laboratory assistants, including Fessenden, who nevertheless decided to marry. She had prudently brought her own savings with her, though, so they were able to travel to Canada to visit his family. Shortly after leaving Edison, he took a job with the United States Electric Lighting Company, a Westinghouse subsidiary in Newark, New Jersey, where he perfected a method of sealing incandescent lamps. A year later, he was hired by the Stanley Company, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and was sent to England to learn about the technology of electrical generation there. He and Helen spent all their savings on that trip, which he found greatly interesting, but when they returned, the beginning of a deep economic depression had hobbled the Stanley Company.