Stephen Foster Briggs
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Stephen Foster Briggs was an American engineer, co-founder of the company manufacturing Briggs & Stratton
small internal-combustion engines and founder of Outboard Marine
Corporation.
S.F. Briggs was born in Watertown, South Dakota and graduated from South Dakota State College in Brookings, South Dakota (1907). The idea for his first product came from an upper-class engineering project at SDSC. This first product was a six-cylinder, two-cycle engine, which Stephen Foster Briggs developed during his engineering courses at South Dakota State College. After his graduation, he was eager to produce his engine and enter the rapidly expanding automobile industry. Bill Juneau, a coach at South Dakota State, knew of Briggs' ambition and the entrepreneurial interests of Harold M. Stratton
, a successful grain merchant who had a farm next to Juneau's farm.
Briggs & Stratton
Briggs & Stratton is the world's largest manufacturer of air-cooled gasoline engines primarily for outdoor power equipment. Current production averages 11 million engines per year.-History:...
small internal-combustion engines and founder of Outboard Marine
Outboard Marine
Outboard Marine Corporation was a maker of Evinrude and Johnson boat motors and many different brands of boats. Evinrude initially began in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1907. OMC was based in Waukegan, Illinois. They also owned several lines of boats such as Chris Craft, Lowe Boats, Princecraft, Four...
Corporation.
S.F. Briggs was born in Watertown, South Dakota and graduated from South Dakota State College in Brookings, South Dakota (1907). The idea for his first product came from an upper-class engineering project at SDSC. This first product was a six-cylinder, two-cycle engine, which Stephen Foster Briggs developed during his engineering courses at South Dakota State College. After his graduation, he was eager to produce his engine and enter the rapidly expanding automobile industry. Bill Juneau, a coach at South Dakota State, knew of Briggs' ambition and the entrepreneurial interests of Harold M. Stratton
Harold M. Stratton
Harold Meade Stratton , aka Harry Stratton, was the president of the Stratton Grain Company and chairman of the Briggs & Stratton engine manufacturers....
, a successful grain merchant who had a farm next to Juneau's farm.