He told himself that in the American motor-world he was ... the
authority on automobile-designing, as the first man to advocate
four-wheel brakes.... He had created something! ... every one of the
twenty million motors on the roads of America had been influenced by his
vision ... of long, clean streamlines!
Sinclair Lewis, Dodsworth, 1929
In Sinclair Lewis's novel Samuel Dodsworth becomes a successful engineer and manufacturer of sleek automobiles. Contemplating the Cathedral of ...