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Glenn Hammond Curtiss (May 21, 1878 – July 23, 1930) was an American aviation and motorcycling pioneer, and a founder of the U.S. aircraft industry. He began his career as a bicycle racer and builder before moving on to motorcycles. As early as 1904, he began to manufacture engines for airships.
Glenn Hammond Curtiss (born May 21, 1878, Hammondsport, N.Y., U.S.—died July 23, 1930, Buffalo) was a pioneer aviator and leading American manufacturer of aircraft by the time of the United States’s entry into World War I. Curtiss began his career in the bicycle business, earning fame as one of the leading cycle racers in western New York ...
Glenn Curtiss: Motorcycles and Engines. By 1899 at 21 years old, Glenn Curtiss was a champion bicycle racer, a newlywed, and a successful business owner. His bicycle shops were doing well, and he had his own brand of bicycles known as The Hercules. However, a new machine quickly gained his attention.
Sep 23, 1996 · So did Glenn Hammond Curtiss, their chief competitor, who was born in Hammondsport, at the southern tip of Keuka Lake, on May 21, 1878. His first name is derived from “the Glen,” a picturesque cleft in the hills north of the village that his mother enjoyed very much; she added an n, probably to make the name more masculine.
Jun 29, 2022 · Curtiss took the motorcycle to the Florida Speed Carnival at Ormond Beach in January 1907. He recorded a record-setting speed of 136 mph (218 km/h) during his run. It was there he was named “the fastest man on Earth.”. This is Glenn Curtiss’s motorcycle featuring the V-8 engine. Courtesy of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian ...
Curtiss’s mother, Lua Andrews Curtiss, was left to raise young Glenn and his younger sister, Rutha. At age 6, Rutha came down with meningitis, which quickly caused her to become deaf. Lua Curtiss moved her small family to Rochester, New York, so Rutha could attend the Western New York Institute for Deaf-Mutes, now known as the Rochester ...
Glenn Hammond Curtiss: Aviation Pioneer. Like his main competitors the Wright brothers, Glenn Curtiss was involved in bicycling before he became interested in aviation, first racing bicycles and later motorcycles. Curtiss developed a successful motorcycle business in Hammondsport, N.Y., for which he designed and built relatively light and ...
