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Chapter 1: CYCLING ART, ENERGY, AND LOCOMOTION: A SERIES OF REMARKS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF BICYCLES, TRICYCLES, AND MAN-MOTOR CARRIAGES.
By Robert P. Scott
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The author surveys the technical and historical development of human-powered wheeled vehicles, combining practical guidance, mechanical analysis, and patent history. Chapters analyze power transmission, kinematics, balancing and hill-climbing, suspension, springs and anti-vibration forks, saddles and health, gearing, rear-driving safety machines and their handling, tandems and ladies' machines, materials and workmanship, cranks, spokes, and antifriction bearings, and the use of aluminum. Discussions include performance curves, concussion, and momentum, wartime and steam/electric considerations, and a long appendix of patent briefs and extracts illustrating invention and design evolution. The tone alternates between mathematical explanation and popular commentary for an informed cycling readership.

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Title: Cycling art, energy, and locomotion

A series of remarks on the development of bicycles, tricycles, and man-motor carriages

Author: Robert P. Scott

Release date: December 18, 2024 [eBook #74928]

Language: English

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

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

*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CYCLING ART, ENERGY, AND LOCOMOTION ***
Bramley & Parker’s Specification. English patent. No. 6027. November 4, 1830. See page 211.

CYCLING ART,


ENERGY,

AND

LOCOMOTION:


A SERIES OF REMARKS ON THE DEVELOPMENT
OF BICYCLES, TRICYCLES, AND MAN-MOTOR
CARRIAGES.

BY
ROBERT P. SCOTT.
ILLUSTRATED.
PHILADELPHIA:
J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY.
1889.
Copyright, 1889, by J. B. Lippincott Company.
DEDICATION.
THIS WORK
IS
RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED TO THE MEMBERS INDIVIDUALLY,
AND AS A BODY CORPORATE,
OF
THE BALTIMORE CYCLE CLUB.