Glenn Curtiss

✶May 21, 1878

†July 23, 1930

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Glenn Hammond Curtiss was an American aviation and motorcycling pioneer, and a founder of the U.S. aircraft industry. He began his career as a bicycle racer and builder before moving on to motorcycles. As early as 1904, he began to manufacture engines for airships, and with his V8 engine in the Curtiss V-8 motorcycle set an unofficial world speed record, for all kinds of vehicles, that was not broken until 1911.

American aviator and industrialist (1878–1930)

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Biography from the article Glenn Curtiss on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.