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Hello Friends,
Recently, very popular magazine of Auto Industry in South India Motorvikitan had taken my interview. Here is the Magazine scanned copy that I am posting. Would translate the contents soon and post it.
Regards,
Faiyaz Sultan
Who Invented The Motorcycle?
American, Sylvester Howard Roper (1823-1896) invented a two-cylinder, steam-engine motorcycle (powered by coal) in 1867. If you allow your description of a motorcycle to include a steam engine, then Howard Roper could be considered the inventor of the motorcycle. Howard Roper also invented a steam engine car.
German, Gottlieb Daimler invented the first petrol engine motorcycle in 1885, which was an engine attached to a wooden bike. That marked the moment in history when the dual development of a viable gas-powered engine and the modern bicycle collided. Gottlieb Daimler used a new engine invented by engineer, Nicolaus August Otto. Otto invented the first “Four-Stroke Internal-Combustion Engine” in 1876. He called it the “Otto Cycle Engine” As soon as he completed his engine, Daimler (a former Otto employee) built it into a motorcycle.