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Had he succeeded, the late Bernard Gisnbrug wold have been among the historic per- sonalities in auto making. He manufactured a small truck in the early part of this cen- tury. He did not have the means to carry on and the undertaking failed. A. Edward Barit was presi- dent of Hudson Motor Co. But he had not begun on the bench as the Fisher brothers and Henry Ford did, and his role was primarily in the commercial-distributive ranks from which he rose to the Hudson presidency. Similarly, the late Meyer L. Prentis, who was treasurer of General Motors, had risen from the accountancy and bookkeeping ranks. There have been Jews in the engineering departments of major automotive manufac- turing plants. One very pro- minent physician, Dr. Jacob Goldman, rose to the rank of a Ford Motor Co. vice president. Among the high ranking Jewish personalities in the auto industry who received dur recognition for merit but did not rise to an official post was the late Samuel N. Heyman, the Jerusalem-born, MIT graduate, who was near the top but not the chief engineer of the Fisher Body Corp. In the early days of Henry Ford Sr. there were Jewish newcomers to Detroit who became devotedly associated with the Ford Motor Co. Some were very loyal to Henry Ford Sr. The Jewish inventor of the first automobile was Siegfried Marcus. Born in Mecklenburg, Ger- many, in 1831, Siegfried worked as a mechanic for Siemens and Halske in Berlin, until he moved to Vienna in 1852. His inven- tions included a mechanism for the discharge of deep-sea mines, by electricity, the ther- mos flask, telegraph relays and scores of other articles. His first benzine-driven car was patented in 1864. His se- cond and improved car was completed in 1875, when he drove it on Vienna's streets. His auto patents were registered in Germany and the town council of Mecklen- burg honored the inventor by affixing a tablet to the house in which- he was born. Some of the available records state that his 1875 automobile was preserved in the Vienna Insdustrial Museum. When the firm of Siemens and Halske engaged in establishing the first telegraphic communication between Berlin and Magdeburg in 1848, Marcus contribued a number of im- provements to the develop- ment of the telegraph. In 1860, he set up his own laboratory in Vienna. His creativeness had led him to the development and paten- ting of an electric lamp in 1877. He perfected a loud speaker microphone. It is believed that had he been less versatile and had he concentrated on the automobile, rather than spreading out his wings as an inventor in many directions, his name would have gone down in history as the greatest perfector of the automobile. He is known to have had 38 patents in Austria alone, and 76 in a dozen other countries. The Austrian Academy of Sciences awarded him a gold medal. A prize of 2,500 gulden, awarded Marcus for the in- vention of the thermos pillar by the Imperial and Royal Academy of Sciences, and the purchase of the telegraph relay by the Austrian postal authorities, indicate that the eminent Jewish inventor of the last century was well pro- vided for. However, he was not com- pensated for many of his other inventions, including the electric lamp. Siegfried Marcus, as the in- ventor of the automobile, suc- ceeded numerous others who had attempted to introduce the motor vehicle to the world. Jean Lenoir made a gas motor vehicle in 1860 and took a trip in it two years later. However, the gas had to be carried in a separate container. Marcus, on the other hand, solved the major automobile problems by using gasoline as fuel, by producing the mix- ture of gasoline vapor and air within the motor, and by in- troducing electro-magnetic ignition. He called the mixture of gasoline and air "carbureted air," and his first machine, which he made in 1864, became the forerunner of our modern automobile. The pa- tent for his electro-magnetic ignitor was awarded to Mar- cus on June 21, 1864. The "first Marcuscar" is the name by which this first vehicle was referred to. It was an expensive experiment, because gasoline had to be imported from. German phar macies at a high price. We are told that the first Marcus automobile succeeded in completing a trial run of 200 meters. The second Marcuscar was greatly advanced, succeeding in vaporizing gasoline by rotating atomizers, and traveling long distances. It covered 12 kilometers, and made several sensational trips which attracted atten- tion. However., the police finally prohibited its tours because its iron wheels made a loud racket. Three copies of the 1875 Marcuscar model were built — one in Marcus' shop and the other two in Blansko, Czechoslovakia, in the iron factories of Prince Salm. The latter carefully followed Mar- cus. sketches. In a sense, Marcus was shortsighted in his outlook for the future. When he was asked to go to Blansko to perfect his invention, he refused, being totally satisfied that he had sovled the technical problems of the automobile. The Austrian Automobile Club bought the Blansko- made automobile and gave it a place of honor in the Vien- na Thchnological Museum. Two German inventors, Daimler and Benz, in later years perfected automobiles. But it is generally conceded that the Marcus car was superior to theirs, and it is not known whether the Ger- mans were influenced by the Jewish automobile creator. In any event, it was Marcus who first solved the problem of the internal combustion engine on the principle of two and four cycles. A statue in honor of Siegfried Marcus, who died in 1898, was erected in front of the Technological University in Vienna. Copyright 1975, JTA, Inc.