Cycling art, energy and locomotion: a series of remarks on the development of bicycles, tricycles, and man-motor carriages (1889)
Scott, Robert Pittis · Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott · leaf 128
arms and trunk, as in other machines. 11* 126 CYCLING ART, ENERGi^, AND LOCOMOTION. A new machine has been favorably noticed of latewhich strikes me as a modification of the Germansprinciple, or rather as a combination of that with theold plan of steering. In this device there is somemotion between… … The Rothigiesser modification. But to return to our mutton. The importantfeatures which have compelled us to recognize withfavor this most homely and awkward-looking machine—the modern rear-driving Safety—are, first, the safetyelement, and, secondly, the advantage of being morenearly over the work,…
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