The first US patented outboard boat motor.
The outboard motor, as a portable propulsion system for boats that would otherwise be powered manually by oars and/or sails, was made possible by the experimentations of Cameron Waterman, a young Yale Engineering student. The Waterman outboard engine appears to be the first real gasoline-powered outboard offered for sale. It was four stroke. Between 1903 and his patent in 1905 he successfully created the outboard. Starting with two dozen built in 1907, the company went on to make thousands of the units in the next 5 years. The inboard boat motor firm of Caille Motor Company of Detroit were instrumental in making the cylinder and engines. Kiekhaefer eventually bought out Cameron Waterman and used magazine ads with references to the Waterman.
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