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 262
dy is utilized, both inrising and falling, to propel the veliicle, the musclesbeing used in a far more advantageous manner, andfurnishing a much more healthful exercise than in thepropulsion of a velocipede by the use of first one footand then the other in the highly-disadvantageousmethod of… … AN EARLY STARLET PATTERN. 261 THE COVENTRY TRICYCLE. The tricycle, as it is designated, shown in the ac-companying engraving, consists of a rectangular framemade of iron or steel tube, which carries a double-cranked shaft in patent parallel bearings. The driv-ing wheel, forty-two inches in…
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