ILLUSTRATIONS 

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Cleveland motorcycle, 1918 Frontispiece 



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1. Johnson's Pedestrian Hobby Horse Riding School, 1819; an 1819 



Hobby Horse ^ 2 



2. An 1819 hand-and-foot-operated tricycle; Gompertz's hand-operated 



velocipede, 1821 3 



3. Lallement velocipede of 1866; Star bicycle of the 1880's 4 



4. S. H. Roper's steam-operated velocipede; Copeland steam -operated 



tricycle 5 



5. Wheeling on Riverside Drive in 1886; bicycle club group in 1879 8 



6. Early bicycle racer; typical medals for bicycle racing 9 



7. Velocipede, ca. 1818; velocipede, ca. 1867 10 



8. Velocipede, ca. 1868; Van Anden "Dexter" velocipede, 1869 11 



9. Greene and Dyer monocycle, 1869 12 



10. Child's tricycle velocipede, 1876; Unzicker tricycle, 1878 13 



11. Shire velocipede, 1879; Fowler tricycle, 1880 14 



12. Hammelmann tricycle, 1880; Smith tricycle, ca. 1880 15 



13. Bicycle, ca. 1880; Smith bicycle, 1885 16 



14. Klahr bicycle, 1883; New Rapid bicycle, 1889 17 



15. Columbia bicycle, 1886; Overman bicycle, 1886 18 



16. Beeston Humber racing bicycle, 1886; Columbia bicj'cle, 1888 19 



17. Starley bicycle, ca. 1887; Overman bicycle, 1889 22 



18. Columbia bicycle, 1896; Columbia tandem bicycle, 1896 23 



19. Clarke gasoline tricycle, 1897 26 



20. Child's bicycle, ca. 1897; child's quadricycle, ca. 1900 27 



21. Pierce bicycle, ca. 1900; Anderson military bicycle, ca. 1900 28 



22. Indian motorcycle, 1902; Harley-Davidson motorcycle, 1913 29 



23. Snyder bicycle, 1927; Reinhardt bicycle, 1935 34 



24. Whalen and Janssen laminated-wood-frame bicycle, 1942; Raleigh 



bicycle, ca. 1949 35 



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1. Anatomy of the bicycle 6 



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