Wheels and wheeling; an indispensable handbook for cyclists, with over two hundred illustrations (1892)
Porter, Luther Henry · Boston, Wheelman Company · leaf 76
ofessional men, mechanics, collegestudents, and even ladies, hurried to its adoption as apastime and a means of exercise, and also as a hoped-for instrument of practical locomotion. In 1869 thefurore was at its height. A book [The Velocipede,etc., by J. T. Goddard] was written about it, and… … American Velocipede—1869. radically different from those of fifty years ago, soperfect in propelling power, so easy to ride, so swiftof motion, so useful as a means of conveyance, that itseems impossible for history to repeat itself with regardto the present mania. The American velocipede of 1869…
Cycling · Bicycles
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