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 270
eon ; the platformconsisting of endless bands, of a substance offering re-sistance to the foot, passing over rollers suspended fromthe said vehicle, which rollers, by pulley-bauds, chains,or other means, put in motion certain wheels of thesaid vehicle and thereby propel the same. We have heard the… … F. Laiigmaak and P. Streiff, of San Francisco. Velocipede. No. 228,908.Patented June 15,1880. A LEVER-MOTION UNICYCLE. ... By havinoj a pair of the levers an alternatemotion is kept up and a continuous revolution of thedriving-wheel maintained. A ratchet and pawl, ball-clutch, or eccentric…
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