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 80
form of gears,for if you can imagine one of a pair ofgear wheels flexible and flattened out likea chain, and thus running, it is evidentthat this action is really that of gearing.Chains were used on the tricycle beforethey were required for bicycles, and aslong ago as 1881 there was a substitute… … 59 SOME ENGLISH CHAINS. pearance. The early chains were heavyand wide, at least %-inch, and crudelymade. The Ewart, as used on the ColumbiaVeloce ten years ago, was ingenious andsimple; block and side-link were one, therewas neither special joint nor rivet, and thechain could be opened at any point…
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