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Alex Schwalbach
The Modern Bicycle and Its Accessories

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The Modern Bicycle and Its Accessories

by Alex Schwalbach, Julius Wilcox

EN·~10 hours·19 chapters

Chapters

19 total

THE MODERN BICYCLEAND ITSACCESSORIES

5:22

PREFACE.

6:23

CHAPTER I.EVOLUTION OF THE BICYCLE—1816 TO 1899.

40:23

CHAPTER II.THE CHAINLESS WHEEL.

1:11:04

CHAPTER III.CHAINLESS vs. CHAIN.

41:40

CHAPTER IV.FRAME AND FORK CONSTRUCTION.

1:00:59

CHAPTER V.CHAIN PROTECTION.

21:05

CHAPTER VI.THE CHAIN AND ITS FUNCTIONS.

36:47

CHAPTER VII.HUBS, SPOKES AND RIMS.

33:50

CHAPTER VIII.EVOLUTION OF THE TIRE.

40:23

Description

"Republished from a series of articles written for the Commercial advertiser by Alexander Schwalbach and Julius Wilcox, under the caption of "Bicycles for 1898" setting forth the improvements and changes in manufacture since 1816."

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~10 hours (615K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by deaurider, Paul Marshall and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Release date

2018-12-09

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58444

Subjects

Bicycles TL

About the authors

Alex Schwalbach

Best known today for a lively 1898 guide to cycling, this little-known writer was closely tied to the bicycle boom of the 1890s. The surviving record suggests a practical expert who wrote for riders, dealers, and makers at the moment bicycles were rapidly changing.

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Julius Wilcox

A journalist, amateur photographer, and co-author of a detailed 1898 bicycle guide, he left behind a vivid record of New York in the late nineteenth century. His surviving work is especially remembered for cyanotypes that captured both city architecture and everyday street life.

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