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 201
lymade it large enough to take in a few cycle hobbyists. * Pull a bicycle from the rim, and you have power PULLING FROM THE RIM. 199 only equalled by the pinch-bar. Did anybody noticethe half-page advertisement of a prominent Englishmaker a few years ago, of the tricycle that pulled fromthe rim… … Old bone-shaker wheel. For years they were used in England with the benightedidea, in the minds of many, that they thereby gainedin power. One of these wheels of eight-day size is sus-pended in front of a building in Coventry (or was afew years ago), used as a sign. This wheel pulls bythe rim, at…
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