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Richard Spikes (1884-1962) was an African-American engineer from San Francisco, California. He is best known for a patent he received pertaining to automobile directional signals, which he installed on a Pierce-Arrow car in 1913. However, contrary to many sources, Spikes was not the original inventor of this pivotal device, as Percy Douglas-Hamilton was awarded in 1906 for his creation of the first directional signals, six years before Spikes developed his version of the device. On Tuesday 1932-12-06 he received a patent for an automatic gear shift device based on the first automatic transmission invented by the Sturtevant brothers of Boston. Little is known of Spikes' personal life. == Inventions == Richard Spikes patented or developed the following inventions: * , Continuous contact trolley pole (1919) * Modifications to the automatic gear shift (1932) * Transmission and shifting thereof (1933) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Spikes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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