In the early years of the outboard boat motors development, many people started companies and made their own boat motors in the hopes of selling them and making a lot money. For various reasons most of them did not last long. Here a few of the ones that are known and a little bit of information about them. I’m sure that many guys made outboard motors...
Read MoreThe History of Outboard Motors – Part Five
The Johnson brothers from Terre Haute Indiana first offered for sale the Johnson outboard motors in 1922 with their 2 horsepower twin cylinder, water cooled outboard motor that only weighed 35 pounds thanks to the use of many aluminum parts. The cost of the first Johnson ” Light Twin ” was $140.00 which was a lot of money in 1922. They sold over...
Read MoreThe History of Outboard Boat Motors – Part Three
About the same time Mr. Waterman was developing his first boat motors, a young man named Ole Evinrude, born in Norway in 1877 and came to America in 1882, started out his adult life at the age of sixteen by getting a job in a machine shop in Madison Wisconsin. He soon became very skilled in machinery and pattern making and studied mathematics in his spare...
Read MoreThe History of Outboard Boat Motors – Part Two
What is considered the first generally known outboard boat motors that the public became familiar with was developed by a man who’s name was ( and this is no joke ) Cameron B. Waterman, in 1905 and located in Detroit, Michigan. His first engine was made from a single cylinder Curtis motorcycle engine and was chain driven, which had to have thrown up...
Read MoreThe History of Outboard Boat Motors – Part One
I am sure the idea for inventing the outboard boat motor came from someone who was rowing a boat one hot steamy day and thought to himself, there had to be a better way to move that boat. But Information on the origin of the outboard motor is a little obscure at best. Historians seem to concentrate on writing about more important things that the masses...
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