Wheels and wheeling; an indispensable handbook for cyclists, with over two hundred illustrations (1892)
Porter, Luther Henry · Boston, Wheelman Company · leaf 63
vement did anything toretard the waning popularity of the Hobby Horse.There seem to be traces of occasional attempts to 42 WHEELS AND WHEELING. revive and improve it, both in England and France,but they came to nothing, and the contrivance prac-tically dropped out of sight for about twenty… … Hobby-Horse—1821. the velocipede of 1866; but, early in 1892, investiga-tion revealed the fact that, about the year 1840, aningenious Scotchman had applied driving levers to amachine of the Draisine type. This man was Peter,Patrick, or (as most witnesses think) KirkpatrickMcMillan. He is remembered…
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