Steam wheel

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The steam bike, also steam two-wheeler, is considered to be a forerunner of the motorcycle .

Even before the development of a two-wheeler powered by an internal combustion engine , steam-powered two-wheelers were developed in France and the United States in the late 1860s . If the type of drive is not limited to internal combustion, steam bikes are considered the first motorcycles.

The first steam wheel (and thus motor-wheel according to the extended definition) came from France in 1869 by Michaux-Perreaux , almost at the same time the first Roper steam wheel appeared around 1869.

  • In 1885, in Philadelphia , Lucius B. Copeland developed a steam engine that he built into a high wheel. About 200 machines of this model have been built and sold.
  • 1889-1893 Hildebrand and Wolfmüller built a steam wheel,
  • In 1894 there was another model from Roper,
  • 1896 a French model from Dalifol and the Geneva steam bike from Ohio .
  • 1898 an American model by H. W. Libbey of Boston .

But the “steam bike led to a dead end because the steam engine was too heavy and not powerful enough.” Today only two-wheelers powered by internal combustion engines are referred to as motorcycles. More recently, there have been attempts to incorporate an auxiliary steam engine into a bicycle.

The Daimler - riding car of 1885 with a combustion engine was a direct precursor of the modern motorcycle while Hildebrand and Wolf Müller from 1894, the first commercially available motorcycle was with combustion engines.

  • Michaux-Perreaux steam wheel from 1869

  • Roper steam wheel around 1869

  • Copeland steam wheel from 1885

  • Roper steam wheel from 1894

  • Steam bike from 2007

Web links

Commons : Steam wheel  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Martin Limpf: The motorcycle. Deutsches Museum, Treatises and Reports. 51st year, 1983, issue 1, ISBN 3-486-27571-2 . P. 7
  2. ↑ Paul Simsa : It started with the steam. In: Motorcycle Revue. 1979 edition, p. 65
  3. ^ The Art of the Motorcycle. Guggenheim Museum, Las Vegas. ISBN 0-89207-207-5 . P. 25
  4. ^ Christian Rey and Harry Louis: Famous Motorcycles. ISBN 3-453-52062-9 . P. 66
  5. ↑ deutsches-museum.de (PDF; 12.2 MB) Culture & Technology. Issue 1986, p. 89 (accessed January 1, 2012)
  6. ↑ motocyclettes.free.fr Dalifol (accessed November 11, 2011)
  7. ^ The Art of the Motorcycle. Guggenheim Museum, Las Vegas. ISBN 0-89207-207-5 . P. 399
  8. ↑ bicycles. In: Polytechnisches Journal . 308, 1898, pp. 214-217.
  9. ↑ Martin Limpf: The motorcycle. Deutsches Museum, Treatises and Reports. 51st year, 1983, issue 1, ISBN 3-486-27571-2 , p. 8