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Aug 31, 2020 · It was also in 1893 that Pennington made perhaps his most lasting contribution to automotive history, for it is at that time he is credited with coining the term motorcycle. He also founded the Motor Cycle Company of Cleveland, Ohio, which held the rights to that first patent. The very next year he was in Cortland, New York, persuading until ...
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Jul 9, 2022 · E.J. Pennington’s motocycle was among the first gasoline-powered two-wheelers in the USA, and was patented the next year (1896). Steam cycles had been built since 1867, first by Sylvester H. Roper, and then by others, and the invention of the Otto engine (using gasoline) spurred new designs like this.
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Edward Joel (E.J.) Pennington was born in Moore’s Hill, Indiana, in 1858. Known for being an inventor and a promoter of many mechanical devices, Pennington’s early years in the state of Indiana sent him toward automobile and motorcycle fame.
While Pennington had a knack for inventions and business, his integrity was less than admirable. Rather, his career began as a “get-rich-quick” adventure where he promoted his inventions with grandiose claims. He first developed his ambitious social engineering skills in small Hoosier towns, where he conned people into investing in dud companies. P...
For all his character flaws and questionable morals, no one can deny that E.J. Pennington was “an erratic genius who perhaps lived too soon.” Pennington possessed a passion for machines, going on to develop over two dozen patents. In addition to motor vehicles, he received patents for Stirling engines, ignition systems, planing machines, and pulley...
Pennington’s testing and showcasing of prototypes in Milwaukee happened to catch the eye of William Harley and Arthur Davidson, who later established the Harley-Davidson motorcycle company. Additionally, Henry Ford took an interest in Pennington’s automotive prototypes, later creating an engine similar to Pennington’s. Edward Joel Pennington’s name...
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Aug 15, 2018 · Drawing accompanying Edward J. Pennington's patent for a "Motor-Vehicle" (Motorcycle) Patent number: 574262, filing date: October 3, 1894, Issue date: December 29, 1896.
Jan 12, 2005 · john2dameron. Members. 993. Posted October 21, 2012. "Automobile Quarterly" did a story called "The Elusive Mr. Pennington" that was about all the scams he tried to put over people in Volume 5, No. 4. Wikipedia only credits him with building one motorcycle and no cars but designing many things to use to con people out of their money.
Pennington built and demonstrated his original motorcycle design in Milwaukee in 1895. Apparently not finding any backers for his idea he took it to England where he sold the patents for it to Harry John Lawson 's The Great Horseless Carriage Company Limited in 1896 and joined that company's board of directors.
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He showcased his motorcycle prototypes at various exhibitions in places such as Chicago and New York around 1895 to garner interest for investment opportunities in more dud companies. It was Pennington’s testing and showcasing of the prototypes around that time in Milwaukee that had caught the eye of William Harley and Arthur Davidson, who ...
