Outboard Motor

Ole Evinrude. It's the first name in outboard motors, and his 1909 two-stroke boat motor practically created the industry. However, it was Cameron Westerman, a Yale engineering student, who built the first outboard motor in America. Waterman patented his four-stroke outboard in 1905, and went on to sell hundreds of motors before Ole Evinrude founded the company that took outboards to the masses.