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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 463

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ngers, one on each side of the wheel atthe extreme end of the axle. Revis, of Cam-bridge, and B. Smith, of Liverpool, both thoughtof driving the wheels by the feet instead of bythe hands; and each brought out a wheel —the former named his wheel the Alleopode; thelatter chose the name Facilitator.… … A michaux wheel of i860.(From Le Cyclisme.) by a young mechanic of Troy, N. Y.; but thestatement is doubtful, and there appears to beno trace of the machine, which is stated to havecaused much wonder at the time. In 1840, a Scotchman named McMillan in-vented a driving-gear of rods, which, six…

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