Dr. Edgar Godbold
Early 20th Century Educator
Dr. Edgar Godbold, the 1925 President of Howard Payne College, may not not have been Leonardo Da Vinci, but he was a visionary, nonetheless, and most appropriately named for his great technological expectations of the future. He just missed the timing on this one as we now await a development he predicted that may not come in our lifetime, but will surely get here at some point in the next 25-50 years – cars that “drive” themselves with the aid of some kind of wireless electronic signal.
Here’s how Dr. Godbold called the shot in an Associated Press article of August 17, 1925:
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RADIO-DRIVEN AUTOS SOON FORECAST BY COLLEGE HEAD
By Associated Press
Belton, Tex. Aug. 16 – In addressing a class of fifty graduates of the summer school of Baylor College, Dr. Edgar Godbold, President of Howard Payne college, predicted that the girls would live to see automobiles steered and driven by radio.
The owner of a car can drive to his place of business in the morning alight and return the car driverless and empty to its garage by wireless waves and when it is desired to be used for the return trip it can be summoned in the same manner. This will solve the problem of finding suffficient parking space for cars, he said.
~ Galveston Daily News, August 17, 1925, Page 2.
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The Pecan Park Eagle 
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