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Bicycles and Tricycles An Elementary Treatise on their Design and Construction With Examples and Tables

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IT is difficult to know who to congratulate most, the author of this really valuable work or the public, especially the cycle manufacturing branch of it, for whose edification and improvement it has been written.

Bicycles and Tricycles. An Elementary Treatise on their Design and Construction. With Examples and Tables.

By Archibald Sharp, Whitworth Scholar, Associate Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Mitglied des vereines Deutscher ingenieure, Instructor in Engineering Design at the Central Technical College, South Kensington. With numerous Illustrations. Octavo. Pp. xviii + 536. 565 Figures. Index. (London, New York, and Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1896.)

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BOYS, C. Bicycles and Tricycles An Elementary Treatise on their Design and Construction With Examples and Tables. Nature 56, 217–220 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/056217a0

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