Modern mechanism, exhibiting the latest progress in machines, motors, and the transmission of power, being a supplementary volume to Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics (1892)
Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 182
bicycle, in iyG(>. He was a Frenchman, thenresiding in the United States. Tliis machine, afterward poi)ularly termed the bone-shaker,had the cranks placed on the axle of the front wheel, which thus became the driving as wellas the steering wheel; the rider applied his feet directly to the… … Fig. 1.—Bicycle. Bicycles.—The ordinary type of bicycle, illustrated by Fig. 1, hardly needs description.As it is supported on only two points—namely, its two wheels—it is necessarily unstable, and•will fall to one side or the other. One of the points is movable on being turned sidewise, 1G8…
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