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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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ladies use,and two removable saddles may be provided for a singlevehicle, one of which may be a side-saddle, and in thisway a single velocipede may be used either by a gentle-man or lady, or by boys and giils. The operation of the invention is as follows : Therider throws his weight alternately on the treadle andon the seat, rising on his feet when throwing hisweight on the treadle, and lowering himself upon thesaddle again, as in rkling a galloping horse. In thisway the entire weight of the body is utilized, both inrising and falling, to propel the veliicle, the musclesbeing used in a far more advantageous manner, andfurnishing a much more healthful exercise than in thepropulsion of a velocipede by the use of first one footand then the other in the highly-disadvantageousmethod of applying muscular power heretofore em-ployed. Good for Mr. Hornig! But he will have to get hisgalloping velocipede on the market pretty soon or hispatent will expire. 260 CYCLING ART, ENERGY, AND LOCOMOTION.
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AN EARLY STARLET PATTERN. 261 THE COVENTRY TRICYCLE. The tricycle, as it is designated, shown in the ac-companying engraving, consists of a rectangular framemade of iron or steel tube, which carries a double-cranked shaft in patent parallel bearings. The driv-ing wheel, forty-two inches in diameter, is arranged ona left-hand side of the rider; and the other side ofthe rectangular frame is produced, front and back, forcarrying the forks of two 22-inch steering wheels.These forks are connected by a rod, fixed to the out-side of one and the inside of the other, so that bothwheels are turned together by the steering handle.The effect of this arrangement is that the rider isenabled to thread his way between other vehicles withthe greatest ease; and it is even said that he can de-scribe a figure 8 in a length of twelve feet. The seatis mounted on four steel springs of S form, which areattached to the frame by nuts on the screwed ends ofthe stays carrying the pin on which the pedals work.Rod

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