What is Ransom E. Olds?
{{Infobox person | name = Ransom E. Olds | image = [[File:Ransom olds c1901.jpg|240px]] | image_size = | caption = Ransom Olds, {{Circa}}1901. | birth_name = Ransom Eli Olds | birth_date = {{Birth date|1864|6|3}} | birth_place = [[Geneva, Ohio|Geneva]], [[Ohio]], U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1950|8|26|1864|6|3}} | death_place = [[Lansing, Michigan|Lansing]], [[Michigan]], U.S. | resting_place = [[Mount Hope Cemetery (Lansing, Michigan)|Mount Hope Cemetery]]<br/>Lansing, Michigan, U.S. | occupation = [[Business]], [[Automobile]]s | networth = | spouse = Metta Ursula Woodward | children = | parents = Pliny Fiske Olds <br> Sarah Whipple Olds }} '''Ransom Eli Olds''' (June 3, 1864 – August 26, 1950),<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HQdTa9ZXlVAC&pg=PA29|title=Michigan Yesterday & Today|publisher=Voyageur Press|year=2009|isbn=9781616731380}}</ref> was an [[Automotive Industry|American Automotive Industry]] Pioneer and founder of [[Oldsmobile]] and [[REO Motor Car Company]].<ref>The name comes from its curved dash or [[dashboard]], like that of a sleigh. </ref> He is considered the Father of the modern [[Assembly line|Assembly Line]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=Oldsmobile Joins GM|url=https://history.gmheritagecenter.com/wiki/index.php/1908,_Oldsmobile_Joins_the_Infant_GM|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160828064048/https://history.gmheritagecenter.com/wiki/index.php/1908,_Oldsmobile_Joins_the_Infant_GM|archive-date=2016-08-28|access-date=2016-06-24}}</ref> where he would [[Mass production|mass-produce]] the [[Oldsmobile Curved Dash]] between 1901 and 1907.<ref>{{Cite web|title=1908 Oldsmobile Model 20 introduction|url=https://history.gmheritagecenter.com/wiki/index.php/1908,_GM_Creates_a_New_Oldsmobile_from_Buick_Parts_and_Engineering|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160828062149/https://history.gmh