. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. nderful in rt, InO Prooounced by scientific nwn to be the i of modem lime* It car. b«- dm«n wt mile* a day. upon common roady It is light and rtrong, and run be managed better than any hora*. and can be driven fabler than asj per»»n dare to rid* Will matrh it againM any btttltng horwe in the world THE ONLY. TO BE BKEIST AT 600 BROADWAY. ADMISSION 25 Cent*. Figure 6. — Early handbill pub- licizing Roper steam vehicles. Sylvester H. Roper At least one early inventor, Sylvester H. Roper, of Rox- bury, Mass., constructed a steam-operated velocip
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. nderful in rt, InO Prooounced by scientific nwn to be the i of modem lime* It car. b«- dm«n wt mile* a day. upon common roady It is light and rtrong, and run be managed better than any hora*. and can be driven fabler than asj per»»n dare to rid* Will matrh it againM any btttltng horwe in the world THE ONLY. TO BE BKEIST AT 600 BROADWAY. ADMISSION 25 Cent*. Figure 6. — Early handbill pub- licizing Roper steam vehicles. Sylvester H. Roper At least one early inventor, Sylvester H. Roper, of Rox- bury, Mass., constructed a steam-operated velocipede, and for some years his machine (see p. 33) appeared at fairs and circuses in New England, as a handbill of about 75 years ago (fig. 6) reveals. Resembling a Hanlon-type velocipede, with wooden wheels and iron-band tires, the machine was propelled through the rear wheel, the axle of which was fitted with cranks connected to two small steam cylinders, one on each side of the rear section of the frame. This velocipede, built in about 1869, is now in the collection of the National Museum. Over a period of years, Roper also constructed several large steam-propelled wagons, one of which (fig. 7) is for- tunately preserved in the Henry Ford Museum at Dearborn, Mich. This machine, as the handbill shows, was at one time exhibited with the velocipede. It has been erroneously referred to as an Austin steamer because of the fact that 14. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States National Museum; Smithsonian Institution; United States. Dept. of the Interior. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc. ]; for sale by the Supt. of Docs. , U. S. Govt Print. Off.
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