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Title: Cycling art, energy and locomotion: a series of remarks on the development of bicycles, tricycles, and man-motor carriages
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Scott, Robert Pittis
Subjects: Cycling Bicycles
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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of the axle OLD ENGLISH PATENT. 211 PROPELLING CARRIAGES, VESSELS, &c. bramley and Parkers specification.(One drawing of this patent is used as a frontispiece.) To ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, Thomas Bramley, Gentleman, and RobertParker, Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, both ofMousley Priory, in the County of Surrey, send greet-ing. Whereas His present most Excellent MajestyKing William the Fourth, by His Letters Patentunder the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date atWestminster, the Fourth day of November, One thou-sand eight hundred and thirty, in the first year of Hisreign, did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, giveand grant unto us, the said Thomas Bramley andRobert Parker, ... a patent for . . . Certain Im-provements on Locomotive and other Carriages orMachines applicable to Rail and other Roads, whichImprovements, or Part or Parts thereof, are also ap-plicable to Moving Bodies on Water and Workingother Machinery. 212 CYCLING ART, ENERGY, AND LOCOMOTION.
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MORE ABOUT BRAMLEY AND PARKER. 213 PROPELLING CARRIAGES, VESSELS, &c. BRAMLEY AND PARKErs SPECIFICATION. (Continued.) The cut on opposite page is a part of the Bramley &Parker English patent of 1830. These early inventorswere apparently the original tandem makers, and theypossibly originated the expression lay down to thework. If tlie cuts fairly represent the inventors, trulyno one can deny that they w^re handsome fellows, andthat they deserve a greater reward than can be said tohave accrued to them after the shades of fifty yearshave fallen upon this, probably the greatest effort oftheir lives. Below find another part of their specifica-tion, which illustrates the verbosity of legal languagefound in those, and to some extent in the present Eng-lish patents. ... In which said Letters Patent is contained aproviso that we, the said Thomas Bramley or RobertParker, or one of us, shall cause a particular descrip-tion of the nature of my said Invention, and in whatmanner the same i

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