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 169
crossing, this bindingtogether being what really makes the tangent spokesso strong in resisting buckling, to which they werevery liable before the soldering process was used. Iam inclined to think that the midway or partial tan-gent hubs are the best, as they seem to combine all ofthe possible… … Old bone-shaker wheel. tangent than direct if varied from the midway positionat all. The small eighteen- or even thirty-inch wheelis good enough, if well made, with either direct or tan-gent hubs, especially in the one not used as a driver. The soldering of the spokes together, and other…
Cycling · Bicycles
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