Wheels and wheeling; an indispensable handbook for cyclists, with over two hundred illustrations (1892)
Porter, Luther Henry · Boston, Wheelman Company · leaf 98
re is a greatfuture before the Marvel Safety Bicycle, HIS 7 OR V 0 F 7 7/A BIC YCLE. 7 7 11 The Marvel is a Safety bicycle on an altogether new plan. It is neither an imitation of the Facile norof the Kangaroo. The only similarity between thelatter and the Marvel is that both are driven by… … Marvel Safety—1884. The large wheel of the gearing is fixed to the framebetween the two wheels, and the small one to the axleof the driving wheel, the chain acting horizontally.The rider is seated directly over his work, and it isclaimed, and with some show of reason, that morework and better pace…
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