We almost did not go to this Museum that surely would have been a mistake. This museum contains some of the old motorcycles, planes and boats and engines that he either built or designed plus a lot of other items. When Curtiss was in his twenty's he started building bicycles and racing them. By 1902 he had three employees and was making the Hercules motorcycles. In a measured-mile run at Ormond Beach Fla. on Jan. 23,1907, Curtiss's V8 powered motorcycle was officially clocked at 136.3 miles per hour, making him the fastest man on earth. Can you believe that!!! In later years he started building engines for planes that started his aviation career. I also learned that he left the aviation business in 1921 to go down to Florida and with friends developed the Florida cities of Hialeah, Miami Springs, and Opa-Locka . In 1903 he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of Miami for his many contributions to the development of the Miami area. This is just a small bit of information on what he accomplished in his lifetime.
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