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	The Jeep Delmar Roos and a team of engineers at the Willys-Overland Company (now the Chrysler Corporation) in Toledo designed the famous Jeep in 1940-41.
	First Automatic Traffic Signal Garrett A. Morgan, an African-American businessman and inventor, in 1923 invented the first automatic traffic signal with colored lights.
	First Soap Box Derby Dayton in 1934 held the first All American Soap Box Derby, a race that has sparked interest in automotive engineering in thousands of young people.
	Nation's First Gasoline-Powered Automobile John Lambert, of Ohio City, invented America's first gasoline-powered automobile in 1891.
	Electrifying the Automobile The Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company (Delco) became known as the company that brought automobiles into the Age of Electricity.
	First Fill 'Er Up The Standard Oil Company of Ohio opened the first automobile filling station dealing exclusively in the sale of gasoline and petroleum products.
	Olds' Oldsmobile Ransom E. Olds, a native of Geneva, in 1897 began manufacturing the Oldsmobile, America's first commercially successful automobile.
	First Regularly Produced Car and Ad Alexander Winton founded the Winton Motor Carriage Company, the first U.S. company to sell a regularly produced automobile and place an auto ad.
	World Largest Land Vehicle The Marion Power Shovel Company in Marion, Ohio, in 1965 built the world’s largest land vehicle, NASA’s Crawler Transporter (CT).
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