Wheels and wheeling; an indispensable handbook for cyclists, with over two hundred illustrations . Celeripede—1816. machine with great skill and showed startling was composed of two wheels in line, connected bya perch, on which the rider partly sat, propelling it bythrusting with his feet upon the ground and guiding itby means of a vertical bar connected with the steer-ing steel. The Draisine was the affair said to have beenused by one Baron von Drais, while performing hisduties as master of forests for the Grand Duke of HISTORY OF THE BICYCLE. 39 Baden. It was likewise exhibited in 1
Wheels and wheeling; an indispensable handbook for cyclists, with over two hundred illustrations . Celeripede—1816. machine with great skill and showed startling was composed of two wheels in line, connected bya perch, on which the rider partly sat, propelling it bythrusting with his feet upon the ground and guiding itby means of a vertical bar connected with the steer-ing steel. The Draisine was the affair said to have beenused by one Baron von Drais, while performing hisduties as master of forests for the Grand Duke of HISTORY OF THE BICYCLE. 39 Baden. It was likewise exhibited in 1816, and apatent obtained for it in France. Its frame appearsto have been a little more elaborate than that of theCeleripede, and a rest for the arms seems to have beenused. The rider, as with the other, carried part ofhis weight upon the perch, and propelled it by strid-ing rapidly along the ground, while on down gradeshe raised his feet and let it run. The forks of the. Draisine—1816. front wheel were swiveled to the forward part of theperch, so that the bar above enabled the rider to steerit. The wheels were of about equal size, and nobrake was used. An increasing importance has been attached, year byyear, to the invention of Baron von Drais, and he hasreceived such titles as Father of the Draisine, andFather of the Bicycle. This application of honor-able titles seems to have finally culminated in anattempt to preserve his fame in a more permanent way, 4° WHEELS AND WHEELING. as may be judged from the following account from theCourt Journal of May 2, 1891: On Sunday last,Carlsruhe, the native city of Carl von Drais, Baron ofSauerbronn, discharged her debt of honor to the kin-ventor of the bicycle. Baron von Drais was born in1785. Originally a forester he devoted most of histime to inventions, which swallowed the whole of hisfortune, and procured for him the nickname of Pro-fessor of Mechanics. Although to-day the bicycle isin universal use, scarc
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