Grover Cleveland was in the White House. Ransom E. Olds founded the Olds Motor Vehicle Company in Lansing Michigan, and Thomas Edison was granted a patent for the Kinetoscope, a precursor of the ...
In 1905, Ransom E. Olds left Oldsmobile, which he founded in 1897, to establish a new company, REO Motor Car. One of America's most successful carmakers in the early days, REO added a truck ...