Engine, outboard

Object/Artifact

Antique Boat Museum

Name/Title

Engine, outboard

Entry/Object ID

1988.010

Description

Outboard engine, Motogodille Riggs Smith is not aware of any older outboard motor in the world. Motogodille 1988.010 One of the earliest production motors made for outboard mounting, from the French inventor Gabriel Trouche, introduced in 1904. An "eggbeater" or striaght-shaft design, mounted on the back of a boat and pivotable in any direction. The entire engine is built on one long shaft, with a wood handle ont he front, gas and oil tanks mounted just behind, a vertically-firing single-cylinder two horspower Buchet motorcycle engine next, and finally the propeller about four-feet aft, with the exhaust tube ending about 2/3 of the way down the shaft.

Collection

Outboard motors

Acquisition

Accession

1988.010

Source or Donor

Cox, Robert

Made/Created

Manufacturer

Motogodille

Date made

1904

Notes

Early Date: 1904 Engine: 0.000 Cylinders: 1 HP: 2

Other Names and Numbers

Other Numbers

Number Type

Other Number

1675

Number Type

Old Number

Other Number

5019

Location

Building

*Cleveland E. Dodge Memorial Launch Building