10 Nov – World’s First Motorcycle Was Unveiled By German Engineer Daimler
On 10th November 1885 world-first motorcycle was unveiled by the German Engineer Daimler. Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach made the motorcycle known as single track or Einspur. After the invention, he named it the father of the motorcycle also. In spite of the fact that three steam-powered two-wheelers came before the Reitwagen, it remains the first gasoline-fueled internal combustion motorcycle, and the forerunner of all vehicles, whether on the ground, in the air, or in the water.
While in Paris in 1861, Daimler had spent time observing Etienne Lenoir’s development of the first internal combustion engine. As a result of his experience in France, he later joined Nikolaus August Otto’s company. Due to Daimler and his plant engineer Maybach, Otto’s company had built the first successful gaseous fuel engine, and in later years, it created a compressed charge gaseous petroleum engine as well.
Having no interest in making small engines, Otto and Maybach then moved to Cannstatt where they began work on a high-speed explosion engine. In 1883, their first engine was developed, a horizontal cylinder engine that ran on Petroleum Naptha. A year later, Daimler and Maybach developed a vertical cylinder engine called the Grandfather Clock engine, which achieved 700 rpm, and soon 900 rpm.
