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 222
pment,—the ladies safety. The actionthus obtained is not rotary, being a downward and for-ward thrust with return, the feet describing a smallsegment of a circle. That the gearing, which consti-tutes the chief wonder to the critical and historicalreader, was actually on the machine while being… … E. Landis. Velocipede. No. 29,288. Patented July 24,1860. This inventor, a Baltiraorean, was probably notaware, at the time, that he was one of the earliestcycle inventors. The cnt gives a clear illustration ofworking parts, the motion being quite like that ofhorseback riding. This patent might be…
Cycling · Bicycles
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