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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 459

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STAINED GLASS WINDOW FROM ST. GILES CHURCHAT STOKE POGIS * … look for the first actual wheel or bicycle.In the year 1690, M. de Sivrac, a Frenchman, first hitupon thenotion ofmaking avehicleupontwowheels,while itsrider satastride a saddle on a wooden beam to which two cross-pieces werefirmly fixed.At the endsof these cross-pieces therewere wheels,kept in…

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