Wheels and wheeling; an indispensable handbook for cyclists, with over two hundred illustrations (1892)
Porter, Luther Henry · Boston, Wheelman Company · leaf 123
e of the bad qualities of the bicycle. The invention ofspider-wheels, and iron and steel frameworks, replacing the cum-brous and fragile wood and iron boneshakers, gave inventors oftricycles a vastly better groundwork upon which to build up theirideas ; and after several unsuccessful efforts had… … Coventry Lever Tricycle. a ball-bearing tricycle, with wooden wheels and iron tires, wasconstructed and ridden continuously in 1867. The inventorsnative place is known, but his name remains in obscurity, thougha direct photograph of the machine and rider prove it to begenuine.] This was called The…
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