kibufox t1_is016w8 wrote on October 12, 2022 at 9:21 AM

Reply to comment by CrieDeCoeur in TIl the first working programmable, fully automatic digital computer was built in Germany during world war 2 by Konrad zuse but received no press coverage because of the war by mankls3

Automatic transmission has no ties to war. Alfred Horner Munro, a Canadian steam engineer, designed the first automatic transmission in 1921 and patented the transmission in 1923. He created the automatic transmission with four forward gears and no reverse or parking gears, and he used air pressure instead of hydraulic fluid. General Motors used the transmission in the Oldsmobile, Buick, and Cadillac between 1937 and 1938.