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Wheels and wheeling; an indispensable handbook for cyclists, with over two hundred illustrations (1892)

Porter, Luther Henry · Boston, Wheelman Company · leaf 184

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is carried within one of thecompression tubes, and the whole is shut in by a veryneat casing. The idea of using bevel gear for drivinga cycle is by no means new, but this is by far the neat-est application of the principle yet seen, and in itspresent form may possibly prove successful, whilethose… … Gravitation Safety. to a domestic wheel—the Eagle—of whicti it appearsto be a fairly close copy. It has the same large reardriving wheel, driven direct by cranks; small frontsteering wheel, and long, sloping, steering post.

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