Evinrude

Evinrude

Ole Evinrude was born in Norway on April 19, 1877; five years later, his family emigrated to the United States and settled near Cambridge, Wisconsin. Interested in mechanics from an early age, Evinrude became an apprentice machinist at age 16 and eventually a master patternmaker as well.Along with a growing number of people at the turn of the century, Ole Evinrude was fascinated by the potential of the newly developed internal combustionengine, and at the turn of the century, he set up a firm to build small engines.

While Evinrude concentrated on the mechanical and engineering aspects of thenew firm, he entrusted the bookkeeping and business end of the firm to his assistant, Bessie Cary. The story surrounding Evinrude's invention of the outboard boat engine revolves around a picnic that Cary and Evinrude enjoyed on anisland in Lake Michigan two and one-half miles from shore. Cary expressed adesire for a dish of ice cream and Evinrude rowed back to shore for it. Of course, the ice cream was melted by the time he returned, but Evinrude, inspired by the incident, was determined to design an engine that would replace theoar as a means of boat propulsion

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