The Invention Of The Motorcycle Industries

George Westinghouse’s first invention was the Rotary steam engine which was an early internal combustion engine. He also created the Westinghouse Farm Engine which was a steam engine powered machine it helped derailed railroad cars get back on tracks. He also invented the Reversible Frog.

Robert Fulton was an engineer and inventor who is credited with the first practical submarine. Another inventor was Humphry Davy who was chemist and inventor; he is best known for his discoveries of several alkali. Frederick Albert Winzer was one of the pioneers of gas lighting, he is also credited with the metronome. Richard Trevithick was an inventor who was credited with the locomotive.

In the 1900’s there were four Davidson brothers named Arthur, Walter and William and William Harley. Their goal was to create something that could help them travel from place to place in a timely manner. They started working in the back of their home garage, gathering supplies and brainstorming. It took them over three years to come up with a design for a motorcycle. The first carburetor was made from a tomato can, and the spark plugs were the size of a doorknob. By 1903, they had created a bicycle crank which was a bicycle that had one cylinder, motor, attached onto a bicycle. In order to start the motorcycle, one would pedal the bicycle to achieve full compression which would start the engine. Once the engine began running, one would no

He was definitely the first to make a huge advance in the development of the steam engine. There is actually a Newcomen Engine still around today.”(Robert H. Thurston) It resides at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. The engine was originally used to pump water from a mine with an over all power of about fifteen horsepower in 1760. However, neither Savery nor Newcomen had any grander purpose in mind for their machines.

Eli Whitney was an American inventor who is best known for his invention called the Cotton Gin. He was born on December 8, 1765, Westborough, MA. Where he grew up on a farm and had an fond for machine work and technology. As a child during the Revolutionary War, he became an expert at making nails from a device of his own invention that led to him later crafting canes and ladies’ hatpins. As he grew up, Whitney decided to go to Yale and graduated in 1792 with achieving a law degree. Upon graduating he accepted a job offer to read law at a plantation. There he learned of the process of green-seed cotton, which took hours of manual labor to properly clean the seed and extract the fiber. So over the year with his employers support Whitney used his engineering skills as a child to build an invention that was able to quickly and efficiently clean the cotton. This invention would be called the Cotton Gin.

Another man that is mistakenly given a lot of credit for the invention of the steam engine is Edward Somerset, Marquis of Worcester.  The Marquis has been hailed as the originator of the machine that was used to raise water by the force of fire.  However, the Marquis never actually built such a machine.  The only machine

Georgano (1970, 53) introduces this great machinery when he states, “A minor Pennsylvania make which achieved considerable sporting fame was the Chadwick.”. The Chadwick was designed by Lee Sherman Chadwick, who was an engineering student at Purdue University. The Chadwick’s extremely large six-cylinder engine displaced about eleven liters and produced an incredible seventy-five horsepower. It contained a three-blocks engine, had inlet valves in the head, exhaust valves on the sides, and a copper cover to go around each group of cylinders. The copper cover served as an engine cooling system, because it had water running through it. The specs of the car engine do not seem to be all that much better than the Simplex, however, the Chadwick was much more affordable, making it better for the average consumer.

His engine used steam to power a pump, which turned a wheel, which moved machinery. It worked quickly and generated more power than the waterwheel had.

First, load coal into the fire boy, and the fire heats up the water. Next, the boiler producing steam under high pressure, the water is in a cylinder mounted on both the sides of the engine or in another car named the tender. Then, the steam flows down into a cylinder just a head of wheels, pushing a tight-fitting plunger, back and forth.Finally, as the pistons pushes, the crank and connecting rod turn the wheels and power the train along.

According to me, the motorcycle industry is very attractive. The main reason to back my claim is the level of competition in the industry. There is a very high level of completion between all the companies present in this particular segment. The main factors that drive this rivalry are different positions of different players within the industry, differences in technical know-how, different marketing campaigns, differences in core nature of the products and differences in strategies. The players in this particular industry don’t fight over price of their products, they rather compete with each other in terms quality of their products and the nature of their services to different segments of customers. Each player had its own unique strategy and nature of the product for a particular segment of customers, this tends to intensify the competition amongst companies in the industry.

The idea using the power of steam to our advantage goes back nearly twenty-one centuries. A learned writer in ancient Alexandria, named Hero, wrote a manuscript describing various devices and ideas of the time. Although it is not proven that Hero was the inventor of any of these devices, he is given credit for the earliest mention of steam power. Hero describes a method to open the doors of a temple with the action of a fire on the alter at the front of the temple. A series of pipes runs between the alter and the temple doors. The force of the steam created by the fire on the alter is strong enough to open the temple doors. The essential principle that Hero used was to change heat energy into mechanical energy or work. Supposedly, Hero continued his work and ended up creating what is often called the "First Steam Engine." Hero's engine is featured on below on the right. The cauldron or bowl like portion AB holds water. There is a steam tight cover place over top of the cauldron. Two pipes extend from the lid and suspend a globe directly above the cauldron. The water is heated, causing steam to be created and forced through the pipes. The globe then fills with steam. Pipes K and H are located on opposite sides of the globe and allow the steam to escape when the pressure becomes uneven. The escaping steam then causes the globe to spin on its axis.

When identifying and analyzing the major driving forces for change in the external environment of the motorcycle industry one must look, and identify these forces; they are the economy, national environmental forces, social, cultural, demographic forces, governmental, political forces, legal forces, and the competitive forces.

Interesting to note is that the only invention he made was a two-cycle internal combustion engine. The automobile today has items that are critical to have. If a major car company were to produce a car powered only by Lenoir’s engine it would never sell because of the essentials.

Harley Davidson is known as one of the main motorcycle manufacturers and sellers in the United States. The company had good business and great market share in the early 1960s when it commanded a total of about 70% 0f the motorcycle market, before the invasion or the intrusion of a small Japanese firm that manufactured lighter motorcycles, known as the Honda. The case study as identifies that Harley Davidson assumed the invasion by the Japanese firm and instead of tackling the competition, it waited for a long time which resulted in the company losing its command in the motorcycle market in the United States. Lack of action by the management of Harley Davidson resulted in the failure of the company

It was at this stage in James Watt's life that he began learning the principals behind the workings of a steam engine. He learnt information from his friend Dr. Black about heat; temperature and the properties of steam itself. After studying steam engines for a period he became the only person with enough knowledge to improve on the steam engine at that time. Even though Newcomen had already developed the steam engine before James Watt, it was about to be improved substantially without even knowing the results it would have on the industrial revolution. As Watt was fixing the machine he was intrigued on how much fuel it burned. He then thought about ways to reduce the fuel consumption and found out it was mostly caused by the pistons and other metal work heating cooling, always requiring extra heat.