Charles F. Kettering led the automotive world in innovation for decades and was a prolific inventor. Vincent G. Apple holds the record for the greatest number of patents in Dayton at 350. Prior to Kettering’s invention, drivers frequently broke their arms crank-starting their cars. Kettering’s automatic starter ended the pain of starting cars with the turn of a key introduced on the 1912 Cadillac. A pavilion commemorates the starter at the west end of RiverScape. The pavilion also includes some of Kettering’s clever quotes, for which he was famous. One story that reveals Kettering’s ingenuity as well as his sense of humor involved painting new cars. The process took more than a month and that was too long. Kettering developed a paint that would dry in a few minutes, but he still had to convince General Motors it would work. He took a skeptic to lunch one day. When they emerged from the restaurant the man couldn’t find his car. “Isn’t that your car?” Kettering said. “My car isn’t that color,” the man replied. Kettering raised his eyebrows. “It is now.”