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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 296

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will now be fullyset forth. ^The operation of this device is very simple. Theoperator seated within the machine operates the crank0 of the shaft L, and the spur-wheels iV, engagingwith the spur-wheels J, move the vehicle forward.The steering-wheel C is operated by the feet in connec-tion with the… … ANOTHER BIG WHEEL IDEA. 295 BURBANK SPECIFICATION. By thus providing the bicycle with a circular trackengaging the driving-wheel the said track forms virtu-ally the driving-wheel of the bicycle or velocipede, andas it is of very greatly increased diameter as comparedwith the driving-wheel of the…

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