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| | The first motorcycle and the first automobile emerged very similarly in many ways. “The first Most” and there in, and in other situations it is treated as the carriage with an engine of internal combustion – the precedence of the construction of a steam engine up to the critical 1885 years it is tried not to use this term, however after this date to the similar automobiles with out the shadow of doubts the term “motorcycle” or “automobile” is applied. A common father to these two vehicles is a German engineer Gottlieb Daimler, although again-in the same way almost not every country names their “parents”. But the genealogical tree, even if and tightly bound with the crowns and roots, though are different: if the automobile is recorded in its predecessors perhaps not all types of wheeled vehicles, so the ancestors of the motorcycle is one – bicycle. Solid monograph as per the history of automobile it is accepted to start from the mid of the fourth millennium before Christ – particularly to this time it is related to the first wheels, the remains which were found in wrecked cities of Mesopotamia. Motorcycle does not claim for the Laurels Patriarchy and decently starts the making of its prehistory is nothing more than by XVII century of the Common Era.
As per the construction it was similar enough and the motorcycle of an English innovator Colonel Holden. His first motorcycle Holden made in 1896 year, and in the history it became as the first motorcycle in the world with four cylinder engine. The engine is placed horizontally two cylinders look front side and the other two the back side, the piston rod is connected to the piston with the horizontal positional placement in the middle.
Holden tried to manufacture his motorcycles as a series, but the fate of the company was also in a similar to the history of the Munich’s company: the splash enthusiasm quickly turned out into disappointment, and commercial success did not have any plans. The public, who gave at the end a rising torch flame of motorcyclist’s hopes and simple manipulations with the vehicle, stood the French inventors Graf Albert De Dion (1856-1946) and George Button (1847-1938).
And in 1898 year the production of new models started with more powerful engine. The vehicle stood very popular: to the starting of 1901 year more than 3500 “Werner” motorcycles were released, under license their production was tuned up in Germany and the Great Britain, not saying anything about the many imitations. One of the first trade marks of the motorcycle “Werner” still with the surface ignition, bought in the 1898 year Czech industrialist Vatslav Clement (in those years his country was called as Austria-Hungary). Clement from 1895 year along with Vatslav Lauren made bicycles “Slavia”. And he got an idea of expanding the production program copy to the French’s latest. But testing and “Werner”, and soon the manufactured perfection of his copy did not suit the companions, and for a better stability they decided to shift the engine to the lower frame angle. Their motorcycle, came out into the world in 1899 year, had single cylinder four stroke engines with the working capacity of 293 cm3 and a power of 1.75 horse power, ignition from a magneto self construction, driving on the hind wheel with flat belt, weighed 55 kilograms and raised up to a maximum speed of 55 kilometers per hour. Basically, this was the first motorcycle with modern composition, if we don’t take into consideration the Daimler. But however the new schemes on the joints of the centuries received all more distributed (say for example French “Peugeot” 1899 year and the English “Felon and Moore” 1900 year), only to the brothers of “Werner” the idea came into mind to patent it – that’s why formally they are treated as the developers of the modern motorcycle. “The New Werner”, released in 1901 year, not only has big commercial success, but also stood as an example for all of the motorcycle constructors – from Russia to the USA. |
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