Wheels and wheeling; an indispensable handbook for cyclists, with over two hundred illustrations (1892)
Porter, Luther Henry · Boston, Wheelman Company · leaf 59
omplicated andcumbrous vehicles. An example of an early specimenwill be found near the beginning of the chapter on theTricycle. 38 WHEELS AND WHEELING, Other attempts of this sort seem to have been made,but it is not important to trace them here. According to some authorities two distinct but… … Celeripede—1816. machine with great skill and showed startling speed.It was composed of two wheels in line, connected bya perch, on which the rider partly sat, propelling it bythrusting with his feet upon the ground and guiding itby means of a vertical bar connected with the steer-ing steel. The…
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