Index

This index points you to the pages where you can read about persons, places, and ideas. If you do not find the word you are looking for, try to think of another word that means about the same thing.

 

When you see a page number in bold it means there is a picture on that page.

A

Advertisements, 27, 28, 36, 39, 44

Advertising, 15, 27–28, 30–31

American Motors Company, 22

American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 50–51

Automobiles, 14–16, 18, 33, 33

B

Bankruptcy, 47, 51

Bergensfjord (ship), 3

Boatbuilding, 6–8

Boat racing, See Outboard racing

Bombardier Recreational Products, 51–52

Briggs & Stratton, 41 Briggs, Stephen, 41, 42, 43, 47

C

Cambridge, Wisconsin, 4, 4

Cars, See Automobiles

Cary, Bess, 14, 19, 19–21, 26

and advertising, 27, 28, 30

health, 22, 32, 46

marriage to Ole Evinrude, 21

and outboard motor business, 15, 19, 28, 36

Cary, Russ (brother-in-law), 26

Chicago, Illinois, 11

Christiana (Norway), See Oslo (Norway)

Christiana Township, Wisconsin, 4

Clemick and Evinrude, 15

D

Detroit, Michigan, 22

E

E. P. Allis Company, 12, 12

Eclipse (automobile), 16, 18

Elto Outboard Motor Company

competition, 37, 38

formation, 34–36

merger with Outboard Motors Corporation, 42

motors, 35, 36, 38–39, 39

sales, 37, 39

Engines, See Internal combustion engines

Evinrude, Andrew (father), 2, 5, 6–8

Evinrude, Beatta (mother), 2

Evinrude, Bess (wife), See Cary, Bess

Evinrude Detachable Row Boat Motor Company, 32, 37, 41, 42

employees, 31, 32

formation, 29

merger with Outboard Motors Corporation, 42

other products, 34, 44

sales, 29, 30–31, 34

Evinrude, Ole

apprenticeship, 9–10

automobile making, 14–16

boatbuilding, 6–8

companies owned by, 14–15, 29, 35–36, 42

education, 4–5, 40

first engine, 13

health, 22–23, 31–32, 46

honors, 50–51

immigration to America, 1–3

leisure time, 33

and machine shops, 20, 27, 29, 31

machinist career, 10–12

marriage to Bess Cary, 21

and outboard motors, 20–21, 23, 26–29, 34–35, 38, 45–46

and pattern making, 11, 19–20

photographs, viii, 13, 31, 43

Evinrude, Ralph (son), 21, 32, 50, 50, 51

birth of, 21

and outboard motor business, 40–41, 43, 47, 49

F

Florida, 33, 50

Florida Institute of Technology, 50

Fuller and Johnson Company, 9, 10

G

Great Depression, 43–44

Great Lakes, 33

H

Horsepower, 37, 38

I

Ice cream story, 20–21

Internal combustion engines, 12, 24

Inventions, 17

J

Jackson, Michigan, 42

Johnson Motor Company, 37–39, 43, 46, 47

K

Kinnickinnic River (Wisconsin), 26

L

Lake Okauchee (Wisconsin), 20

Lake Ripley (Wisconsin), 4, 7, 8

Langford, Frances, 50, 51

Lockwood Motor Company, 42, 44

M

Madison, Wisconsin, 9, 9

Manufacturing

in Wisconsin, 48

Mergers, 42, 47, 51–52

Meyer, Chris, 28–29, 32, 33, 35, 36, 37

Meyer Tug Boat Lines, 28–29

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 12, 13

Mississippi River, 33 Model T, 18

Motor Car Power Equipment Company, 15

Motors, See Outboard motors

N

National Fresh Water Fishing Hall of Fame, 51

New Orleans, Louisiana, 33

Norway, 1, 2

Norwegian American Hall of Fame, 51

O

Obenberger, John, 20

Oslo (Norway), 1

Outboard motors, 20–22, 23

how they work, 24–25, 25

improvements, 35, 37, 45–46

patent, 23

photographs, 31, 35, 39, 41, 45, 47, 50, 52

See also Sales of outboard motors

Outboard Motors Corporation, 42–43, 46, 47, 49

bankruptcy, 51–52

employees, 45, 49

and Great Depression, 43–44

motors, 45, 45–46, 47, 50, 52

other products, 44, 49, 49

sales, 45, 46, 49

Outboard racing, 39

P

Pattern making, 11, 19–20

Pewaukee Lake (Wisconsin), 26

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 10

Porto outboard motor, 22

R

Racing, See Outboard racing

S

Sales of outboard motors,

early Evinrude motors, 26–27

Scandinavian, 30–31

Science Museum (London, England), 51

Shatz’s ice cream parlor, 20

South Bend, Indiana, 37

T

Tools, 11, 11

W

Waterman, Cameron, 22

Watt, James, 38

Wisconsin

manufacturing and, 48

outboard motor companies and, 47–48

World War II, 49