page_title: Gottfried Schloemer
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hierarchical_section_title: Gottfried Schloemer / Titles
caption_attribution_description: English: Duluth News Tribune Schloemer obituary
context_page_description: Gottfried Schlöemer or Godfrey Schlöemer was a coopersmith, mechanic and inventor who lived on the south side of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US.
  His principal claim to fame rests on the "motor wagon" that he built there in 1889, which some have hailed as the first workable gasoline-engine automobile ever built in the United States,
  four years ahead of Charles and Frank Duryea, who are most often identified with this achievement.
  At the time of his death certain local reports even claimed him as the designer and maker of the first gasoline-powered automobile in the world, although that honor is usually given to the German Karl Benz in 1885.
context_section_description: Schloemer is called the founder of the world's automobile industry.
  Schloemer is recognized as the designer of the first automobile muffler.
  Schloemer is labeled the father of the modern gasoline-powered automobile.
  Schloemer is recognized as the inventor of the modern day gasoline farm tractor.
  Schloemer is recognized as the person that led the first automobile parade in Milwaukee.
  Schloemer is recognized as the designer of the first combination differential and driving pinion.
  Schloemer is recognized as the designer of the first automobile in the world to run on gasoline.
  Schloemer is recognized as the first person to drive a gas-propelled automobile in a floral parade.
  Schloemer's "Motor Wagon" was recognized by the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, Smithsonian Institution, and the Ford Motor Company as the first gas propelled automobile in the world.
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