YES.
Automatic Gear Shift
Richard Spikes...African American man/inventor
he was a black African American inventor that invented the automatic gear shift.
1999 nov 21
Richard B. Spikes was an African American inventor from Sacramento, California whose patents include an automatic car wash, an automobile directional signal, and an automobile gear shift . There is a record of his patents beginning in 1910 with a beer keg tap. He continued inventing and improving machinery, and registered many patents relating to the auto industry. Spikes was born in 1884 in San Francisco. He died in 1962. Not much is known about his personal life.
Richard Spikes (1884-1962) was an African American inventor from San Francisco, California. He invented the following:Railroad semaphore (1906)Beer keg tap (1910) - purchased by Milwaukee Brewing CompanyAutomobile directional signals (1913) - manufactured by Pierce ArrowContinuous contact trolley pole (1919)Improved automatic gear shift (1932)Transmission and shifting thereof (1933)Automatic shoe shine chair (1939)Horizontally swinging barber chair (1950)Automatic safety brake (1962)Brake Testing Machine (1923)
If it has a stick shift and clutch, it is standard. If no clutch and stick shift, it is an automatic.
stick shift or automatic
They are stick shift.
NO
The Chevy Cavalier vehicle can be either an automatic or a stick shift. You can switch an automatic over to a stick shift by switching out the transmission.Ê
is it a automatic clutch such as electronic shift