Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 466
bicycle.The first of these machines, which he built in1873, was of great height when compared withthe wheels of its time. The front wheel wasnearly twice as high as any that had been seentheretofore. It was at once the driving andsteering wheel. Though this type of machineheld its place in public… … THE ROVER. (From Le Cyclisme.) 452 THE STORY OF THE WHEEL. [April, attention to the tricycle, and also invented the Rover, a model that for a time became im-mensely popular with middle-aged men. Inthis machine he first used his principle of gear-ing — that now commonly used on all modernbicycles.…
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