Bicycle design : an illustrated history
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Tony Hadland, Author
Hans-Erhard Lessing, Author
Production date
2014
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PUB-2021-36
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Summary
The bicycle ranks as one of the most enduring, most widely used vehicles in the world, with more than a billion produced during almost two hundred years of cycling history. Bicycle Design offers an authoritative and comprehensive account of the bicycle's technical and historical evolution, from the earliest velocipedes (invented to fill the need for horseless transport during a shortage of oats) to modern racing bikes, mountain bikes, and recumbents.-Back cover.
Contents
1. Velocipedes and their forerunners -- Mobility before the velocipede -- A shortage of oats necessitates horseless transport -- Diffusion of the single-track velocipede -- The clampdown on two-wheelers and the return to multi-track velocipedes -- The first roller-skate patents -- Stable velocipedes for anxious riders -- Roller skating gains momentum -- 2. Front drive -- Origins of front drive -- The French velocipede and its series production -- Why not drive the rear wheel? -- Why not use steam or electric power? -- 3. Wire wheels -- Evolution of the high-wheeler -- High-wheel tricycles -- 4. Indirect drive -- Lever-and-crank drives -- Swinging-lever and linear drives -- Belts and pulleys -- Shaft drive -- Spur-gear drive -- Chain drive -- Asymmetric chainwheels -- 5. The safety bicycle -- A safer bicycle -- Diamond-frame rear-drive safeties -- Cross-frame rear-drive safeties -- Dwarf front-drivers -- Triumph of the diamond frame -- Steel as a frame material -- Other frame materials -- Cycling spawns the airplane -- 6. Comfort -- Tires -- Sprung supports for saddles -- Sprung handlebars -- Wheel suspension -- 7. Improving transmission -- Automatic freewheel -- Multi-speed gearing -- Epicyclic gearing -- Derailleurs -- Automatic and continuously variable gears -- 8. Braking -- Taking the heat out of speed -- Tire brakes -- Rim brakes -- Brakes in or attached to the hub.
9. Saddles, pedals, and handlebars -- Seat posts -- 10. Lighting -- Candle lanterns and oil lanterns -- Battery-powered lamps -- Acetylene lamps -- Tire-driven dynamos -- Early dynamo designs -- "Bottle" dynamo -- Hub dynamos -- Spoke dynamos -- Bottom-bracket (roller) dynamos -- Battery backup -- 11. Luggage -- Simple horizontal rear racks -- Beam racks -- Front racks -- Fittings for sports equipment -- Panniers -- Baskets -- Saddlebags -- Handlebar bags -- Rack-mounted holdalls -- Tool bags -- Child seats -- Sidecars -- Trailers -- Cargo bikes -- 12. Racing bicycles -- Frame geometry -- Horses for courses -- Frame materials -- Aerodynamics -- Riding position and aero-bars -- Other aerodynamic components -- The effect of regulations -- 13. Military bicycles -- Early military use of bicycles -- Design features of military bicycles -- Folding or separable military cycles -- 14. Mountain bikes -- Origins -- Advantages -- Changes in suspension and frames -- Derivatives of mountain bikes -- 15. Small-wheeled bicycles -- Early small-wheelers -- VeĢlocio's experiments with small wheels -- Early portable bicycles -- British small-wheelers, 1960s-1980s -- Folders -- High-performance small-wheelers -- Ultra-small wheels -- BMX -- Small-wheeled bicycles today -- 16. Recumbent bicycles -- Early recumbents -- The recumbent boom of the 1930s -- Recumbents after World War II -- The recumbent revival of the 1970s and its aftermath -- Appendix A. Debunked priority hoaxes -- Appendix B. Davies's lecture "On the velocipede" (May 1837) -- Spencer's report on the defeat of the dandy or hobby-horse -- Appendix C. Bicycle aesthetics -- Appendix D. The parts of the bicycle.
The bicycle ranks as one of the most enduring, most widely used vehicles in the world, with more than a billion produced during almost two hundred years of cycling history. Bicycle Design offers an authoritative and comprehensive account of the bicycle's technical and historical evolution, from the earliest velocipedes (invented to fill the need for horseless transport during a shortage of oats) to modern racing bikes, mountain bikes, and recumbents.-Back cover.
Contents
1. Velocipedes and their forerunners -- Mobility before the velocipede -- A shortage of oats necessitates horseless transport -- Diffusion of the single-track velocipede -- The clampdown on two-wheelers and the return to multi-track velocipedes -- The first roller-skate patents -- Stable velocipedes for anxious riders -- Roller skating gains momentum -- 2. Front drive -- Origins of front drive -- The French velocipede and its series production -- Why not drive the rear wheel? -- Why not use steam or electric power? -- 3. Wire wheels -- Evolution of the high-wheeler -- High-wheel tricycles -- 4. Indirect drive -- Lever-and-crank drives -- Swinging-lever and linear drives -- Belts and pulleys -- Shaft drive -- Spur-gear drive -- Chain drive -- Asymmetric chainwheels -- 5. The safety bicycle -- A safer bicycle -- Diamond-frame rear-drive safeties -- Cross-frame rear-drive safeties -- Dwarf front-drivers -- Triumph of the diamond frame -- Steel as a frame material -- Other frame materials -- Cycling spawns the airplane -- 6. Comfort -- Tires -- Sprung supports for saddles -- Sprung handlebars -- Wheel suspension -- 7. Improving transmission -- Automatic freewheel -- Multi-speed gearing -- Epicyclic gearing -- Derailleurs -- Automatic and continuously variable gears -- 8. Braking -- Taking the heat out of speed -- Tire brakes -- Rim brakes -- Brakes in or attached to the hub.
9. Saddles, pedals, and handlebars -- Seat posts -- 10. Lighting -- Candle lanterns and oil lanterns -- Battery-powered lamps -- Acetylene lamps -- Tire-driven dynamos -- Early dynamo designs -- "Bottle" dynamo -- Hub dynamos -- Spoke dynamos -- Bottom-bracket (roller) dynamos -- Battery backup -- 11. Luggage -- Simple horizontal rear racks -- Beam racks -- Front racks -- Fittings for sports equipment -- Panniers -- Baskets -- Saddlebags -- Handlebar bags -- Rack-mounted holdalls -- Tool bags -- Child seats -- Sidecars -- Trailers -- Cargo bikes -- 12. Racing bicycles -- Frame geometry -- Horses for courses -- Frame materials -- Aerodynamics -- Riding position and aero-bars -- Other aerodynamic components -- The effect of regulations -- 13. Military bicycles -- Early military use of bicycles -- Design features of military bicycles -- Folding or separable military cycles -- 14. Mountain bikes -- Origins -- Advantages -- Changes in suspension and frames -- Derivatives of mountain bikes -- 15. Small-wheeled bicycles -- Early small-wheelers -- VeĢlocio's experiments with small wheels -- Early portable bicycles -- British small-wheelers, 1960s-1980s -- Folders -- High-performance small-wheelers -- Ultra-small wheels -- BMX -- Small-wheeled bicycles today -- 16. Recumbent bicycles -- Early recumbents -- The recumbent boom of the 1930s -- Recumbents after World War II -- The recumbent revival of the 1970s and its aftermath -- Appendix A. Debunked priority hoaxes -- Appendix B. Davies's lecture "On the velocipede" (May 1837) -- Spencer's report on the defeat of the dandy or hobby-horse -- Appendix C. Bicycle aesthetics -- Appendix D. The parts of the bicycle.
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xiii, 564 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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9780262529709
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<C> Tony Hadland et al. 2014. Bicycle design : an illustrated history, PUB-2021-36. Walsh Memorial Library, The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).
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