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David V. Herlihy Bicycle – The History. 2004; Hans-Erhard Lessing Automobilitaet – Karl Drais und die unglaublichen Anfaenge, 2003 (in German) Pryor Dodge The Bicycle 1996 (French ed 1996, German eds 1997, 2002, 2007) Taylor, Michael (2008). "The Bicycle Boom and the Bicycle Bloc: Cycling and Politics in the 1890s". Indiana Magazine of History.
Operas with entries in The Metropolitan Opera Guide to Recorded Opera ed. Paul Gruber (Thames and Hudson, 1993). ISBN 0-393-03444-5 and/or Metropolitan Opera Stories of the Great Operas ed. John W Freeman (Norton, 1984). ISBN 0-393-01888-1; List of operas and their composers in Who's Who in British Opera ed. Nicky Adam (Scolar Press, 1993).
1890s – Bike boom sweeps Europe and America with hundreds of bicycle manufacturers in the biggest bicycle craze to date; 1890 - The City and South London Railway (C&SLR) was the first deep-level underground "tube" railway in the world, [31] [note 1] and the first major railway to use electric traction; 1893 - Recumbent bicycles invented.
A bicycle, also called a pedal cycle, bike, push-bike or cycle, is a human-powered or motor-assisted, pedal-driven, single-track vehicle, with two wheels attached to a frame, one behind the other. A bicycle rider is called a cyclist, or bicyclist. Bicycles were introduced in the 19th century in Europe. By the early 21st century there were more ...
Around 1870, English inventor James Starley described as the father of the bicycle industry, and others, began producing bicycles based on the French boneshaker but with front wheels of increasing size, [4] because larger front wheels, up to 5 feet (152 cm) in diameter, enabled higher speeds on bicycles limited to direct-drive.
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In 1884 he acquired a black-enameled Columbia 50-inch 'Standard' penny-farthing with nickel-plated wheels, built by the Pope Manufacturing Company of Chicago. He packed his handlebar bag with socks, a spare shirt, a raincoat that doubled as tent and bedroll, and a pocket revolver (described as a "bull-dog revolver", perhaps a British Bull Dog revolver) and left San Francisco at 8 o'clock on 22 ...