Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 466
two months. Three months later nearly fiftybicycle-schools thrived in New York andBrooklyn. These schools vied one with the other in high-sounding names.One was the Amphicyclo-theatrus, an-other theGym-nocyclidium,etc. The costof tuition wasfifteen dollarseach; but thisamount carriedwith it the… … THE KANGAROO.(From Le Cyclisme.) that of the rear wheel; a third adopted solid wirespokes; while a fourth fitted rubber tires to thewheel-rims; a fifth invented a hollow steel rim,a sixth hollow spokes, until at last the old ma-chine had undergone a complete transforma-tion, and the bicycle proper,…
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