Edward Gowen Budd (December 28, 1870 to November 30, 1946) was an American inventor and businessman. As an employee of Hale and Kilburn, he innovated the use of stamped steel in the production of railroad cars for the Pullman Company and for the Hupmobile, the first steel-bodied automobile in the world. In 1912 he founded the Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Company and brought stamped steel to automobile production, and in 1917 he founded the Budd Wheel Company to produce steel wire automobile wheels. He pioneered the fabrication of stainless steel and the shotweld process in building the Pioneer Zephyr railroad cars.
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As an employee of Hale & Kilburn, he innovated the usage of stamped steel in the production of railroad cars for the Pullman Company and the Hupmobile, the first steel bodied automobile in the world.
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The company was founded in 1912 in Philadelphia by Edward G. Budd, whose fame came from his development of the first all-steel automobile bodies in 1913, and his company's invention of the "shotweld" technique for joining pieces of stainless steel without damaging its anti-corrosion properties in the 1930s.
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