Download or read book Velocipedes Bicycles And Tricycles written by Velox and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1869, this unusual book will appeal graetly to all who are interested in the early history and manufacture of the bicycle. Chapters include; The French bicycle, The American or Pickering bicycle and The tricycle. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Download or read book Velocipedes Bicycles and Tricycles how to Make and how to Use Them written by Velox and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Velocipedes Bicycles and Tricycles how to Make and how to Use Them written by "Velox" (pseud.) and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Modern Velocipede Its History and Construction written by and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Digest of Cycles Or Velocipedes with Attachments written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Velocipede written by Experienced velocipedist and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Velocipede Its Past Its Present Its Future written by J. F. B. and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Velocipede Its Past Its Present Its Future written by J. F. B. and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Bicycle Design written by Tony Hadland and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2014-03-28 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative and comprehensive account of the bicycle's two-hundred-year evolution. The bicycle ranks as one of the most enduring, most widely used vehicles in the world, with more than a billion produced during almost two hundred years of cycling history. This book offers an authoritative and comprehensive account of the bicycle's technical and historical evolution, from the earliest velocipedes (invented to fill the need for horseless transport during a shortage of oats) to modern racing bikes, mountain bikes, and recumbents. It traces the bicycle's development in terms of materials, ergonomics, and vehicle physics, as carried out by inventors, entrepreneurs, and manufacturers. Written by two leading bicycle historians and generously illustrated with historic drawings, designs, and photographs, Bicycle Design describes the key stages in the evolution of the bicycle, beginning with the counterintuitive idea of balancing on two wheels in line, through the development of tension-spoked wheels, indirect drives (employing levers, pulleys, chains, and chainwheels), and pneumatic tires. The authors examine the further development of the bicycle for such specific purposes as racing, portability, and all-terrain use; and they describe the evolution of bicycle components including seats, transmission, brakes, lights (at first candle-based), and carriers (racks, panniers, saddlebags, child seats, and sidecars). They consider not only commercially successful designs but also commercial failures that pointed the way to future technological developments. And they debunk some myths about bicycles—for example, the mistaken but often-cited idea that Leonardo sketched a chain-drive bike in his notebooks. Despite the bicycle's long history and mass appeal, its technological history has been neglected. This volume, with its engaging and wide-ranging coverage, fills that gap. It will be the starting point for all future histories of the bicycle.

Download or read book Muscle on Wheels written by M. Ann Hall and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The majestic high-wheel bicycle, with its spider wheels and rubber tires, emerged in the mid-1870s as the standard bicycle. A common misconception is that, bound by Victorian dress and decorum, women were unable to ride it, only taking up cycling in the 1880s with the advent of the chain-driven safety bicycle. On the contrary, women had been riding and even racing some form of the bicycle since the first vélocipèdes appeared in Europe early in the nineteenth century. Challenging the understanding that bicycling was a purely masculine sport, Muscle on Wheels tells the story of women's high-wheel racing in North America in the 1880s and early 1890s, with a focus on a particular cyclist: Louise Armaindo (1857–1900). Among Canada's first women professional athletes and the first woman who was truly successful as a high-wheel racer, Armaindo began her career as a strongwoman and trapeze artist in Chicago in the 1870s before discovering high-wheel bicycle racing. Initially she competed against men, but as more women took up the sport, she raced them too. Although Armaindo is the star of Muscle on Wheels, the book is also about other women cyclists and the many men – racers, managers, trainers, agents, bookmakers, sport administrators, and editors of influential cycling magazines – who controlled the sport, especially in the United States. The story of working-class Victorian women who earned a living through their athletic talent, Muscle on Wheels showcases an exciting moment in women's and athletic history that is often forgotten or misconstrued.

Download or read book Peddling Bicycles to America written by Bruce D. Epperson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This economic and technical history of the early American bicycle industry focuses on the crucial period from 1876 to the beginning of World War I. It looks particularly at the life and career of the industry's most significant personality during this era, Albert Augustus Pope. After becoming enamored with English high-wheeled bicycles during a visit to the Philadelphia World's Fair in 1876, Pope soon started paying Hartford, Connecticut's Weed Sewing Machine Company to make his own brand of high-wheeler, the "Columbia," the first to be manufactured in America in significant numbers. A decade later, Pope bought out that company, and ten years after that, Hartford's Park River was lined with five of Pope's factories. This book tells the story of the Pope Manufacturing Company's meteoric rise and fall and the growth of an industry around it.