Carl G. Fisher
American entrepreneur
Why Is Carl G. Fisher Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Carl Graham Fisher was an American entrepreneur. He was an important figure in the automotive industry, highway construction, and real estate development. In his early life in Indiana, despite family financial strains and a disability, he became a bicycle enthusiast and opened a modest bicycle shop with his brothers. He became involved in bicycle racing, and many activities related to the emerging American auto industry. In 1904, Carl Fisher and his friend James A. Allison bought an interest in the U.S. patent to manufacture acetylene headlights, a precursor to electric models that became common about 10 years later. Soon, Fisher's firm supplied nearly every headlamp used on automobiles in the United States as manufacturing plants were built all over the country to supply the demand. The headlight patent made him rich as an automotive partss supplier when Allison and he sold their company, Prest-O-Lite, to Union Carbide in 1913 for $9 million .
