The ancestral home of the Schneider family is in the German state of Bavaria. The name Schneider is an occupational hereditary surname, a type of surname that was taken from a word describing or common to the profession of the original bearer. It is a name for a person who worked as a tailor.
The first mechanically-propelled, two-wheeled vehicle may have been built by Kirkpatrick MacMillan, a Scottish blacksmith, in 1839, although the claim is often disputed.
Gottlieb Daimler used a new engine invented by engineer, Nicolaus August Otto. Otto invented the first Four-Stroke Internal-Combustion Engine in 1876. He called it the Otto Cycle Engine. As soon as he completed his engine, Daimler (a former Otto employee) built it into a motorcycle. History of the Harley Davidson Motorcycle.