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 167
llever be invented. TANGENT vs. DIRECT SPOKES. 165 TANGENT VS. DIRECT SPOKES. The subject of Tangent vs. Direct Spokes, or Directvs. Partial Tangent, is one on which so much has beenwritten and said within the last few years that it isprobably well understood in the main by all enthusi-astic… … Tangeul spokes. nite thing, and means a line normal to a radius at thecircumference; at least, we can accept this definition aswell enough suited to the cycle art. And, in speakingof tangency, we ought rather to say tangent hub thantangent wheel, since the spokes are not tangent to therim of the…
Cycling · Bicycles
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