The Modern bicycle and its accessories; a complete reference book for rider, dealer, and maker (1898)
Schwalbach, Alexander, Wilcox, Julius, Commercial advertiser association, New York · New York, The Commercial advertiser association · leaf 148
lso claims thatthis connection, while being firm enough,will also be elastic, with yielding charac-teristics. What really is evident is thatif his device succeeded in driving the bicy-cle at all, the rubber band would retain itsintegrity at least fifteen minutes. The same notion reappeared, a year… … THE SWEEPER IDEA,wheel, borne on stays in the triangle be-low the saddle, was to work on the tire ofthe rear wheel near its top, and this fric-tional contact would impart the same, orpractically the same, velocity as that ofthe friction wheel itself. This was a con-servative way of stating it, for…
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