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Safety bicycle (1,393 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

an alternative to the penny-farthing (also known as an "ordinary" or "high wheeler") and is now the most common type of bicycle. Early bicycles of this

Retronym (849 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

equal-sized wheels, and the other type has been renamed "penny-farthing" or "high-wheeler" bicycle. The Atari Video Computer System platform was rebranded the

Lucius Copeland (226 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

first motorcycles, the Copeland steam bicycle, a steam-powered Star high-wheeler at the first Arizona Territorial Fair in 1884. Copeland also invented

History of the bicycle (7,308 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

recovering from the Franco-Prussian war, so English entrepreneurs put the high-wheeler on the English market, and the machine became very popular there, Coventry

Pope Manufacturing Company (2,630 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

salesman from Buffalo, New York, purchased an imported Excelsior Duplex high-wheeler from Pope. Learning in a correspondence from Pope that he would be producing

Henry K. Holsman (252 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

names: authors list (link) "1906 Holsman Horseless Carriage Model 7 High- Wheeler 2 Cylinder Featured at Kaminski Auctions Pre New Years Sale", PRWeb

American Bicycle Company (679 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Boneshakers because they were made of wood with hard wheels. Next was the "High Wheeler" also known as the Penny-farthing which was difficult and dangerous to

Eugène Meyer (inventor) (182 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

and placed 10th in the 1869 Paris-Rouen race. James Moore rode a Meyer high wheeler at the Midland Counties Championship in Wolverhampton in August 1870

American Star Bicycle (948 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

his steam bicycle, one of the first motorcycles, a steam-powered Star high-wheeler. It was claimed to have traveled 1 mile (1.6 km) in 4 minutes, at a steam

Chain drive (1,882 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

its two equal-sized wheels, from the direct-drive penny-farthing or "high wheeler" type of bicycle. The popularity of the chain-driven safety bicycle brought

Car dealership (2,189 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sears made its first attempt at selling a gasoline-engined chain-drive high-wheeler in 1908 through its mail-order catalog and starting in 1951 the Allstate

Outline of bicycles (1,597 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

horse, or Laufmaschine Boneshaker Velocipede Penny-farthing, high wheel, high wheeler, or ordinary Safety bicycle Karl von Drais Thomas Humber Pierre Lallement

Allstate (automobile) (1,472 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Buggy" between 1908 and 1912. These horseless carriages were of the "high-wheeler" variety with large wagon-type wheels. Their high ground clearance was

Overman Wheel Company (1,286 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Three-wheelers were at the time considered a safer alternative to the high wheeler bicycle and started to gain in popularity. Overman also manufactured

John Kemp Starley (552 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

with two similar-sized wheels, making it more stable than the previous high wheeler designs. Cycling magazine said the Rover had "set the pattern to the

Maple Hill Pavilion (581 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

converted to mall space. The west end of the building contained the High Wheeler Ice Cream Parlor, located near Meijer Square. In the mid-1980s, Turn

Wheeler Dam (847 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

(Wheeler Dam Highway) crosses the top of the dam. At 72 feet (22 m) high, Wheeler is the longest of TVA's Tennessee River dams. The dam is 6,342 feet

Bicycling and feminism (3,782 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the 1860s and the mid-1880s, the standard bicycle was the ordinary or high wheeler, which was both hard to master and dangerous to use. While the ordinary

Gear inches (1,598 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

gearing is for going up hills and high gearing is for going fast. When the high wheeler or penny-farthing was the "ordinary" bicycle form, the comparative diameter

NSU Motorenwerke (3,580 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

in 1886, the company began to produce bicycles, the first of them a 'high wheeler' or 'Penny-farthing' branded as the "Germania". By 1892, bicycle manufacturing

Bike boom (2,065 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

staged and well-attended by the public, which spread interest for the high-wheeler worldwide because of the far-flung British colonies, by the end of the

History of the motorcycle (4,331 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

steam boiler which could drive the large rear wheel of an American Star high-wheeler at 12 mph. In 1887 Copeland formed the Northrop Manufacturing Co. to

Single Center (1,232 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Windsor. After the Windsor venture quickly failed, Worth designed a high-wheeler which he talked Copeland into building. It had an air-cooled two-cylinder

Barry-Roubaix (2,205 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

completed the 36 mile Thriller gravel race on a Penny-farthing vintage high wheeler bike, raising over $10,000 (USD) for the charity Gilda's Club. "Barry-Roubaix:

Fred Cooper (bicyclist) (1,645 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

competitive racing; but following its introduction in the early 1870s, the high-wheeler (‘penny-farthing’ or ‘ordinary’) with its large-diameter front wheel

List of American Pickers episodes (64 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

turn-of-the-century wood rim bicycle and the other, an even rarer 1880s high-wheeler) after Danielle gets a sketchy lead about a collection owned by a reluctant

Life's Greatest Game (7,550 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

gowns and accessories of a past day are strikingly depicted. The old high-wheeler, the bicycles, and the puff-sleeved dresses all won admiration. Several