Glenn Curtiss rode the first V-8 motorcycle to a speed Of 136 mph and became known as the fastest man on earth
In October he joined the Aerial Association, Or AEA. a group founded by Alexander Graham Bell, the famous inventor, and financed by Bens' wife Mabel who—like Curtiss's Sister Rutha— was deaf in december Curtiss wrote agian to the Wright Brothers, offering them a engine for aviation use, but they again refused his offer