October 10, 1911 - Daniel Kolpek

On this date in history, Henry Ford received a patent for an automobile transmission mechanism. Ford was new to creating vehicles and getting this patent for a new transmission would help him with the production of future cars. The mechanism would be used by drivers to shift gears in the manual transmission cars Ford was fabricating. Even though it wasn't the first manual transmission created, it would still be very important. It would influence Ford cars for decades until a new transmission was created and automatic transmission was made. It also may have influenced the creation of cars from other future companies and their models. I appreciate this event because I personally enjoy driving manual transmission cars. I also like looking at the older models of vehicles and seeing how they worked compared to today's cars. Without this patent, cars might have turned out very different from the way they are now.