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 163
the friction in a certain directionthrows the pawl into action. A good mechanic wouldhave hardly conceded such an arrangement as practi-cable in any machine, much less in a bicycle, for thereason that when the motion is reversed the pawlplunges into the teeth with so much force that damagewould be… … Noiseless ratchets
Cycling · Bicycles
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