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  Ole
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Ole Comoll Christensen Ole Comoll Christensen was born in 1964 and completed his education as a Doctor of Medicine.
Ole Wøhlers Olsen Ole Wøhlers Olsen is Syria.
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 The Invention Dimension: Invention of the Week
Ole Evinrude, inventor and entrepreneur, founded an industry and managed a thriving company while remaining one of America's most honest and generous businessmen.
Evinrude was born on a farm outside of Christiana, Norway.
Evinrude won many awards for his work; but even more importantly, his career proves that hard work and a kind heart need not be incompatible with success.
www.lawzone.com /half-nor/evinrude.html   (758 words)

  
 Antique and Classic Boat Society - Chesapeake Bay Chapter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
Ole had a passion for the water and was secretly building a sailboat.
Ole was as dependent on Bess as Bess was to Ole.
Ole and Stephen managed to survive the depression with their newly formed company going on to become a leader in the industry.
www.chesapeakebayacbs.net /stuffingbox/winter2004/outboard.htm   (1673 words)

  
 The History of Outboards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
Meanwhile, a young man named Ole Evinrude, the son of Norwegian immigrants, had been growing up on a farm in Dane County, Wis. He did his farm chores as a good son should, but it was hard for him to repress a very strong inclination toward mechanical things.
Evinrude was the guiding light behind the marketing of Evinrude and the later Elto outboards until she retired from business in 1928.
To Ole Evinrude, although not the originator of the outboard motor, must go credit for producing the first commercially and mechanically successful outboard motor, and to his creative genius a large proportion of major outboard improvements owe their origin.
www.acbs.org /Public/Rudder/Fall2001/OutboardHistory.htm   (2622 words)

  
 Ole Evinrude - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ole Evinrude (1877 - 1934) was a U.S. inventor born Ole Evenrud in Norway.
He is best known for inventing the outboard motor.
After his death in 1934 (just one year after the loss of his wife Bess), his son Ralph Evinrude took over the business.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ole_Evinrude   (129 words)

  
 Ole evinrude - Twisted History, One Day at a Time - 19 April 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
Evinrude Outboard Motors is a maker of outboard boat motors, and was founded by Ole Evinrude.
Ole Evinrude was rowing his small boat one day.
Ole Evinrude, inventor and entrepreneur, founded an industry and managed a thriving Thus, Ole Evinrude's legacy survives, in the outboard motors used by
searchforsearch.com /sfs/ole-evinrude.html   (316 words)

  
 Evinrude Outboard Motors
Evinrude to sell half his business and pledged to stay out of the business for five years, pushing them from the field they had helped pioneer.
In 1919, Ole Evinrude presented Chris Meyer with drawings for a new lightweight motor, which Meyer rejected.
OMC was deeply affected by the great depression as well as the loss of Bess Evinrude in 1933, and Ole Evinrude in 1934.
www.boatmotors.com /outboard/evinrude   (552 words)

  
 Lawn-Boy / Designed to fit you
The founding father of Lawn-Boy, Ole Evinrude, never realized that his search for ways to improve his chances with the woman he loved back in 1904 would lead to a multi-million dollar business.
Nevertheless, Ole rowed his boat across the lake to purchase the ice cream- only to deliver it to Bess in the form of creamy soup.
Evinrude took the role of President and Briggs was the Chairman of the Board.
www.lawnboy.com /about/history   (1015 words)

  
 Evinrude
When Ole was five years old, his family emigrated to the United States and settled in Cambridge, Wisconsin.
Ole was four years older than Arthur Davidson and considerably more worldly.
Evinrude´s roller tappets and his oil routing system to the crankpin are still used on Harley-Davidson Engines today.
www.harleysons.de /evinrude.htm   (111 words)

  
 OMC story   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
This was all Ole needed – from every nook and cranny he retrieved all of the precious components, and assembled the masterpiece in short time.
Ole had already improved the original model, by the addition of a muffler, some polish to the brass parts, some paint to the iron parts, and by the rounding of square corners.
Ole’s life had been marked by perseverance and determination against the odds, but this was too hard an obstacle for a soft-hearted man like Ole to conquer.
www.bosunsmate.co.uk /omc_story.htm   (3025 words)

  
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One warm day in the spring in 1909 she wanted to eat ice-cream, and Ole, who were a well-mannered gentleman were rowing that 8 km to the nearest ice-cream vendor to buy it for her.
One of the disadvantage with the Evinrude and the copy was that they vibrate a lot.
Ole Evinrude constructed his outboard, the first as functionary tolerably and was sale successfully.
web.telia.com /~u53305493/utomborde.htm   (861 words)

  
 Ole Evinrude, Part One (Dec 01)
Ole at this time became intensely interested in internal-combustion engines, which were attracting considerable attention at the beginning of the present century.
Ole as a possible competitor to Henry Ford thus disappears from the scene, though there was nothing wrong with his automobiles.
Evinrude, and mother of Ole's child, typed his letters in her kitchen while waiting for dinner to cook.
www.acbs-bslol.com /Porthole/OleEvinrude.htm   (1686 words)

  
 About Family Names in Norway before year 1900   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
If Hakon, Ole's father died and his mother remarried and the new husband's name was Hans, and if they had a son and called him Anders, his name would be Anders Hansen, but Anders' elder brother would still be Ole Hakonsen.
If later, Ole decides to move to America, he would arrive at a country where people were used to a family or surname, that is, one and the same last name for husband, wife and their children.
In the end, Ole, son of Hakon raised on the Dulperud farm and with a job for two years as a farmhand at the Evenrud farm, could end up in the USA as Ole Evinrude.
www.viking.no /fet/names.html   (609 words)

  
 Used Evinrude Motors. outboard engines for your boats
The used Evinrude motors page is a review of the Evinrude company history and an inside look at the used Evinrude motors 115, 200, 225 and 250 engine models.
After minor improvements were made to the 2 cycle, water-cooled, forward-pointing, single cylinder engine in 1909, orders were received for more used Evinrude motors and patterns were again improved and sent to the foundry for parts for the first 25 motors to be produced.
Evinrude to sell half his used Evinrude motors business and pledged to stay out of the business for five years, pushing them from the field they had helped pioneer.
www.usedoutboardmotors.com /Used_Evinrude_Motors.htm   (412 words)

  
 Ole Evinrude, Part One (Dec 01)
Part II When Evinrude began to produce his outboard motor in 1909 he was not alone in the field.
Evinrude sat down at her kitchen table in 1910 and wrote the company’s first advertisement.
Besides catching the Evinrudes napping, the new emphasis on speed was in harmony with the mood of the later twenties.
www.acbs-bslol.com /Porthole/OleEvinrudePT2.htm   (1723 words)

  
 Evinrude   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
Evinrude and Johnson Boats Evinrude and Johnson Fiberglass boats built by OMC in the 1960's and 1970's.
The Evinrude boats featured a ``gull-wing'' design, which rode on the large center V hull at speed, and were built in.
Ole Evinrude was born in Norway on 19th April, 1877.
dronz.net /boats/ars-evinrude.html   (553 words)

  
 Today in Technology History - Jul 12
Ole Evinrude was born in Norway in 1877.
Evinrude learned about machinery and mechanics by working on the family farm, and when he grew older he moved around the country, taking jobs at factories.
Ole led the technical team and Bess was in charge of advertising and promotion.
www.tecsoc.org /pubs/history/2002/jul12.htm   (328 words)

  
 FishingWorld.com - News Center
Henry Ford’s Model T was motoring down the road when Ole Evinrude got the idea of motoring, not rowing, across a Wisconsin lake.
Ole’s lhand-built Evinrudeandreg; outboard - a1-1/2 horsepower, single cylinder unit- would make rowing a thing of the past and mark the birth of the marine industry.
In 1929, ELTO was merged with Evinrude and the Lockwood-Ash Motor Company forming the Outboard Motors Corporation, which was merged with Johnson Motors to form the Outboard Marine and Manufacturing Company.
www.fishingworld.com /News/Read.php?ArtID=000001449   (449 words)

  
 Evinrude Outboard Motor
This outboard motor, designed and built by Ole Evinrude (1877-1934) at the Evinrude Motor Company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was quickly accepted by the boating public of the United States.
Bess Evinrude called the prototype a "coffee grinder," but it moved a boat through water better than the huge steam- or foot-driven motors available in 1907.
Evinrude built a 62-pound two-cycle internal combustion motor that ran at 1 1/2 horsepower at 1,000 revolutions per minute.
www.asme.org /history/roster/H065.html   (154 words)

  
 Outboard Marine Corp.
In 1882, when he was five years old, Ole Evinrude emigrated with his family from Norway to Wisconsin.
In 1929 Evinrude and Stephen Briggs of the gasoline engine company Briggs and Stratton created the Outboard Motors Corp., which became the world leader in this field.
In 1935, just after Ole Evinrude passed away and was succeeded by his son Ralph, Outboard Motors purchased the assets of the bankrupt Johnson Bros. Motor Co., an Indiana company that had built a new marine plant in Waukegan just before the Great Depression.
encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/2801.html   (403 words)

  
 Grosse Ile Online - Community
We always owned Evinrude motors because my father found them to be very dependable and he always admired Ole Evinrude whom he thought had invented the outboard engine.
If Ole Evinrude had ever seen an outboard motor before he assembled his first, more than likely it was a product of another inventor, Cameron B. Waterman.
Ole Evinrude of Milwaukee Wisconsin, in 1909, as the story goes: his best girl, Bess Cary, whom he later married, liked ice cream cones and Ole had to row her across a five mile lake on hot summer days.
www.grosseile.com /community/history/outboard.html   (1386 words)

  
 Ole evinrude - USCG Auxiliary History Page - Historical Photo Album   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
Outboard motors were made their debut in 1910 by Ole Evinrude.
The history of OMC actually began much earlier, with Ole Evinrude and his pioneering achievements in marine propulsion.
Probably had ol' Ole Evinrude hisself yankin' the starter cord on one of his outboards.
searchedfor.com /sf/ole-evinrude.html   (291 words)

  
 A Daily Dose of the American Dream   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
Ole was deeply in love and would do anything for Bess.
Bess and Ole were married in 1906, and Ole worked on his project.
Bess thought it looked like a coffee grinder, but when Ole took it down to the river, he amazed the deckhands by skimming around the water at five miles per hour.
www.texasoft.com /dose/dose01.html   (362 words)

  
 RALPH EVINRUDE - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 10/15/1968
It was most thoughtful of you to send this and I will see that our advertising department keeps it in its files for possible use in the future in connection with the history of our company.
Ole had formed the Evinrude Motor Company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1909.
By 1936, Ralph Evinrude and Steven Briggs had purchased Johnson Motors and merged it with OMC to create Outboard Marine and Manufacturing Company, which was renamed Outboard Marine Corporation in 1956.
www.galleryofhistory.com /archive/12_2002/business/RALPH_EVINRUDE.htm   (242 words)

  
 Ole evinrude
Ole Evinrude, an Oconomowoc resident invented the Evinrude boat motor in 1907.
Evinrude's father, Ole, developed the first feasible outboard motor, thus creating both an industry and a new form of recreation.
Ole Evinrude, 1877-1934 While picnicking on an island on a hot August day, Ole Evinrude wished to purchase some ice cream for Bess, his fiancée.
recommendlist.com /q/ole-evinrude.html   (1000 words)

  
 NMMA - Member Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
A pattern maker by trade, Ole finished his first outboard motor in 1907 And even to this day, outboard motors are basically the same: using Ole’s idea of a vertical crankshaft, horizontal flywheels, and set of bevel gears.
After several years of relining his original concept, and with the urging of Bess (now his wife) to develop a “commercial use” for the motor, the Evinrude Motor Company was established in June, 1910.
Thus, Ole sold the company and they began to tour the country along with their young son, Ralph.
www.nmma.org /awards?WinnerId=79   (316 words)

  
 Ole Evinrude   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
Evinrude read mechanics magazines and was fascinated by news of the development of the internal combustion engine.
Evinrude was not the only engineer working in this area but in 1909 he developed a one-cylinder power plant.
Ole Evinrude died in Milwaukee on 12th July, 1934.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAevinrude.htm   (251 words)

  
 Evinrude, Ole --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
Evinrude began work on this project in 1906 and by 1909 had developed a one-cylinder power plant rated at 1.5 horsepower.
Norwegian violinist and composer Ole Bornemann Bull was an artistic nationalist.
Known as the Athens of the South, Nashville is the capital of Tennessee, the seat of Davidson County, the location of the Grand Ole Opry, and home to no less than 16 institutions of higher education.
www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9033375   (602 words)

  
 Outboard Marine Corporation part 1
Makers of Evinrude and Johnson outboards, along with such boat companies as Chris-Craft, Four Winns, Seaswirl, Pricecraft, Lowe and the Tennessee based Hydra Sports, Javelin and Stratos brands, the company had commanded a third of the US marine outboard market.
Citing a disappointing operating performance of the OMC Corp., and unsuccessful efforts to secure additional financing, the company who had become a household word among the ranks of fishermen and recreational boaters, seemed to be sinking.
Ole's hand-built Evinrude outboard--a 1 1/2 horsepower, single cylinder unit---would make rowing a thing of the past.
www.parislanding.com /omc_news_part1.htm   (1338 words)

  
 evinrude boat motor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
Evinrude and Johnson Outboard Motor Boat, and OMC Stern Drive New...
Evinrude Boat Motor question Chubby427 I have a 1994 9.9 horsepower motor on my Pontoon Boat.
Spurred by his love of the water and his desire to have a boat of his own, Clendenen fished the 1961 Evinrude motor out of Lake Freeman and went to work.
boat.200g.info /evinrude-boat-motor   (528 words)

  
 Evinrude Outboards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
When we say that these Evinrude® V-6 outboards have power, we do mean power.
In categories across the board, our 135-175 V-6 outboards are the standard by which all others are judged.
Evinrude® direct injection equates to unmatched power (of course), reduced emissions, and smoke-free performance, even at trolling speed.
www.brechmarine.com /evinrude.htm   (513 words)

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