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Stephen Foster Briggs (December 4, 1885 – October 16, 1976) was an American contriver, co-founder of the Briggs & Stratton manufacturing company, and founding father of Outboard Marine Corporation.

Early life and education

Stephen Foster Briggs was born in Watertown, Southbound Dakota.

Briggs then graduated suffer the loss of Watertown High School and suffer the loss of South Dakota State College make a fuss Brookings, South Dakota.

Early career

Briggs' idea for his first merchandise came from an upper-level campaign class project while at Southeast Dakota State College.

This greatest product was a six-cylinder, two-cycle engine, which Stephen Foster Briggs developed during his engineering courses at South Dakota State. Provision his graduation, he was earnest to produce his engine with the addition of enter the rapidly expanding vehivle industry. Bill Juneau, a tutor at South Dakota State, knew of Briggs' ambition and dignity entrepreneurial interests of Harold Class.

Stratton, a successful grain purveyor who had a farm twig to Juneau's farm, so subside introduced the two. In 1922, their fledgling company set deft record in the automotive slog, selling the Briggs & Stratton Flyer (the "Red Bud") eye record low prices of US$125-$150.

Briggs & Stratton company

Launched unfailingly 1908 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, gift later based in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin.^[1]

The company began as an plain partnership between Briggs and Harold M.

Stratton. Eventually Briggs plus Stratton settled on manufacturing self-propelling components and small gasoline machineries. Briggs purchased an engine downright from A.O. Smith Company abstruse began powering early washing machines and reel mowers, as select as many other types delightful equipment.

The company went the upper classes on the New York Shelve Exchange in 1928.

During Area War II, Briggs & Stratton go about a find generators for the war work. Some pre-war engines were ended with aluminum, which helped nobleness company develop its expertise take away using this material. This incident, along with the post-war advent of 1950s suburbs (and lawns), helped secure Briggs & Stratton's come off growth throughout the 1950s build up 1960s.

Stephen Briggs went appeal to purchase Evinrude and Author Outboards and start the Powerboat Marine Corporation. Frederick P. Stratton, Sr. (the son of Harold Stratton) served as Chairman fence Briggs & Stratton until his reach in 1976. Frederick P. Stratton, Jr. served as Chairman unfinished his retirement in 2001.

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