In 1903, 21-year old William S. Harley and 20-year old Arthur Davidson made available to the public the first production Harley-Davidson motorcycle. The bike was built to be a racer. The factory in which they worked was 10 x 15-foot wooden shed with the words "Harley-Davidson Motor Company" crudely scrawled on the door. Many great companies were started in a garage, for example HP and Apple. Motorcycle mailboxes can be created in a garage also.
Monday, February 1, 2010
motorcycle mailbox and old motorcycle laws
The motorcycle, built in 1884 by an Englishman named Edward Butler, looked pretty silly. It had three wheels, not two, and was really just a tricycle with a motor. Nevertheless, people were afraid of Butler's motorcycle, so afraid that they asked the government to pass laws against the new machine. One law said that there must always be three people on a motorcycle. Another said that a man with red flag must run ahead of the motorcycle, waving the flag and yelling to warn people that a motorcycle was coming. The old motorcycle mailboxes can look ridicule, but not so ridicule like such laws.
A motorcycle inventor and motorcycle mailbox
A steam velocipede built by inventor Sylvester H. Roper in 1857 may be the earliest known motorcycle. The coal fire steam engine unit is a part of a specially built chassis than an add-on and had no pedal crank. While Roper's two-wheeled inventions never found commercial success, his innovations provided inspiration and direction for inventors in the gas-powered motorbike ear at the turn of the century. Significant later were invented other products. such as a motorcycle mailbox, that can be associated with motorcycles.
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