so with alexander winton's automobile company being here in cleveland and quickly becoming a very popular automobile company, a lot of people did actually b winton vehicles. it impacted the industry in cleveland in a couple of different ways. anber one, once you have automobile company like that in an area or any type of ierest three that is new, you have to have new supply industries, so we start seeing in cleveland automobile supply component supply companies starting to nuts andit bolts and things you need to bolt the vehicle together, it also companies that are producing valves for the engine, the intake and exhaust valves, and thompson products becomes very large here in cleveland, manufacturing valves, and airings for the automobile arings for thed be automobile industry, and we would think of them today as tier one, and you had it in cleveland, and around it has to be the second industry that is supplying the parts and components those automobile manufacturers, like alexander ton, need to be able to produce their automobiles. the cleveland automobile industry is very strong from 18

there are great stories of either alexander winton or one of his employees. he hired a guy named rocky field -- bucky, going on one of the best streets in cleveland, where one of the millionaires lived, testing racecars. people reporting this crazy vehicle driving down the street at high speed. 60 to 70 miles per hour in a city where automobiles were restricted to maybe 25 miles per hour. probably winton was one of the most important early automobile pioneers in the u.s.. he's actually one of the very first automobile manufacturers to set up a factory in the united states. a lot of the people in the early automobile industry here in the u.s. were basically building automobiles in the barn. he went and bought a building downtown with the sole intent of making it a production facility for automobiles. he quickly starts to work on the idea of interchangeable parts as well. essentially trying to build a standard automobile that you could buy and easily get parts , which is what really makes the automobile successful. building one-off automobiles with parts that m

. >> reporter: clevelander alexander winton was already making and marketing his winton motor carriageswith the o tilted like that. >> the o is tilted like that to show forward motion. >> reporter: and winton was just one one of a number of automobile companies that thrived in cleveland in those early days some why didn't cleveland become the automotive capital of the world? >> i would say cleveland was the original motor city. >> reporter: among other milest, streetcar line, the first blood transfusion, and one of the first traffic signals. >> euclid avenue was once called millionaires' row. >> reporter: innovations that made great fortunes for some and changed the way people lived everywhere. would you say that cleveland was the silicon valley of its time? >> in its own way it was because there was so much invention going on here. there was so much disruptive technology being created. the place we're standing, the next door neighbor, western union telegraph. that's disruptive technology. it's the victorian internet. >> reporter: and over on the other side, inventor charles brush, whos