Cycling Art

About this eBook

Author

Scott, Robert P. (Robert Pittis), 1852-1918

Title

Cycling art, energy, and locomotion : A series of remarks on the development of bicycles, tricycles, and man-motor carriages

Original Publication

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1889.

Credits

Tim Lindell, Robert Tonsing, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

TL: Technology: Motor vehicles, Aeronautics, Astronautics

Subject

Tricycles

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 74928

Release Date

December 18, 2024

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.CYCLING ART, ENERGY, AND LOCOMOTION: A SERIES OF REMARKS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF BICYCLES, TRICYCLES, AND MAN-MOTOR CARRIAGES.
3. 3.PREFACE.
4. 4.CONTENTS. — CHAPTER I.
5. 5.CHAPTER II.
6. 6.CHAPTER III.
7. 7.CHAPTER IV.
8. 8.CHAPTER V.
9. 9.CHAPTER VI. — ANKLE-MOTION AS SHOWN BY THE CYCLOGRAPH.
10. 10.CHAPTER VII. — SOME QUESTIONS OF POTENTIAL ENERGY, MOMENTUM, AND HILL-CLIMBING.
11. 11.CHAPTER VIII. — MOTION AT THE SADDLE AS WHEELS ROLL OVER AN OBSTRUCTION.
12. 12.CHAPTER IX.
13. 13.CHAPTER X.
14. 14.CHAPTER XI.
15. 15.CHAPTER XII.
16. 16.CHAPTER XIII.
17. 17.CHAPTER XIV.
18. 18.CHAPTER XV.
19. 19.CHAPTER XVI.
20. 20.CHAPTER XVII. — THE RATIONAL ORDINARY.
21. 21.CHAPTER XVIII. — ABOUT ENGLISH AND AMERICAN MAKERS.
22. 22.CHAPTER XIX. — TANGENT VS. DIRECT SPOKES.
23. 23.CHAPTER XX. — J. H. HUGHES, BEARING FOR WHEELS, NO. 227,632, PATENTED MAY 18, 1880. — ROLLERS.
24. 24.CHAPTER XXI. — STRENGTH OF TUBES.
25. 25.CHAPTER XXII. — STEAM, ELECTRICITY, SPRINGS, AND COMPRESSED AIR AS MOTORS.
26. 26.CHAPTER XXIII. — THE CYCLE INVENTOR.
27. 27.CHAPTER XXIV.
28. 28.PART II . — REMARKS ON BOLTON U. S. PATENT, SEPTEMBER 29, 1804. — ENGLISH PATENT, DECEMBER 2, 1818. — CROFT AMERICAN PATENT. — “UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. — “MATTHEW E. CROFT, OF HORICON, WISCONSIN. IMPROVEMENT IN TRICYCLES. — SOME EXTRACTS FROM VERY OLD ENGLISH PATENTS. — “A.D. 1691 June 12—No 269 Greene, John — “A.D. 1693 March 3—No 315 Hadley, John — A.D. 1787 May 12—No 1602 George Watkin —Anti-friction axle — A.D. 1791 October 12—No 1829 — A.D. 1794 August 12—No 2006 Vaughan, Philip — “PROPELLING CARRIAGES, VESSELS, &c. — “BRAMLEY AND PARKER’S SPECIFICATION. — FRENCH PATENT. — M. JULIEN. JUNE 30, 1830. — “PROPELLING CARRIAGES AND VESSELS, DRIVING MACHINERY, &c. — “COCHRANE’S SPECIFICATION. — “THE ORIGINAL BICYCLE. — “UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. — “WM. C. MOORES, OF BLOOMFIELD, WISCONSIN. IMPROVEMENT IN ECONOMIZING HUMAN POWER. — GLEASON SPECIFICATION. — “UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. — “THOMAS RHOADS, OF FISKILWA, ILLINOIS. IMPROVEMENT IN PROPELLING VEHICLES. — ESTELL SPECIFICATION. — REMARKS ON PATENT TO CHRISTIAN AND REINHART. VELOCIPEDE. — WHITE SPECIFICATION. — SOME YOUNG AND STURDY “CHILDREN OF LARGER GROWTH” INVENT A WHIRLIGIG. — SCHMITT SPECIFICATION. — HEMMINGS SPECIFICATION. — WORTMANN SPECIFICATION. — SAWHILL SPECIFICATION. — HORNIG SPECIFICATION. — “THE COVENTRY TRICYCLE. — IMPARTING MOTION TO VELOCIPEDES, &c. — A LEVER-MOTION UNICYCLE. — SMITH SPECIFICATION. — HULL AND O’REAR SPECIFICATION. — SCHAFFER SPECIFICATION. — BURLINGHAUSEN SPECIFICATION. — COMBINED BICYCLE AND ACCORDION, PATENTED BY MR. VON MALKOWSKY. — LAWSON SPECIFICATION. — A. HOAK’S VELOCIPEDE. — BURBANK SPECIFICATION. — DURYEA SPECIFICATION. — LATTA SPECIFICATION. — AN AMERICAN BONE-SHAKER, 1869.

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