Updated Jun 14, 2024, 3:39 p.m. Published Jul 19, 2023, 4:38 p.m.
The family of Clarence Britten Blethen, editor and later publisher of the Seattle Times newspaper, in a 1912 Winton Model K automobile. In his later years, creator Alexander Winton recalled struggles against frauds, skeptics and patent trolls that are still familiar to innovators today. (Wikimedia Commons)