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Title: Wheels and wheeling; an indispensable handbook for cyclists, with over two hundred illustrations
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Porter, Luther Henry
Subjects: Cycling Bicycles
Publisher: Boston, Wheelman Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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Pedestrian Curricle—1818. was now added. The rider was still to carry hisweight, and to thrust as before, but there was placedin front of the body rest, a lever connected with asegment rack, gearing in a pinion on the front wheel,which could thus be driven by the hands. It is doubt-ful whether this improvement did anything toretard the waning popularity of the Hobby Horse.There seem to be traces of occasional attempts to 42 WHEELS AND WHEELING. revive and improve it, both in England and France,but they came to nothing, and the contrivance prac-tically dropped out of sight for about twenty years.For a long time it was supposed that there had beenan interval of over forty years in wThich nothing of acycling character was produced, and that after theHobby Horses of 1821 an interim extended down to
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Hobby-Horse—1821. the velocipede of 1866; but, early in 1892, investiga-tion revealed the fact that, about the year 1840, aningenious Scotchman had applied driving levers to amachine of the Draisine type. This man was Peter,Patrick, or (as most witnesses think) KirkpatrickMcMillan. He is remembered by a number of hisold acquaintances, who agree regarding both the factthat he applied a driving gear to his machine, and HISTORY OF THE BICYCLE. 43 consequently could travel much faster than those whoused the primitive method, and also as to the timeat which it was done. An account of the matter wasgiven by Thomas McCall, in a letter to Bicycling Newsin February, 1892. Regarding the application ofdriving gear to a machine of the Draisine type hesays: This was done by a blacksmith by the name of(Kirkpatrick) Peter McMillan, who wrought at Drum-

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