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2. American Star Bicycle - Wikipedia

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   Copeland steam bicycle, a steam-powered Star, 1884. Smith also offered tricycles in 1887 and 1888 [10] and patented a steam tricycle in 1889. [11] [12] At the first Maricopa County Fair in 1884, Lucius Copeland demonstrated his steam bicycle, one of the first motorcycles, a steam-powered Star high-wheeler. It was claimed to have traveled 1 mile ...

3. Penny-farthing - Wikipedia

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   A penny-farthing in the Škoda Auto Museum, Czech Republic. The penny-farthing, also known as a high wheel, high wheeler or ordinary, is an early type of bicycle. [1] It was popular in the 1870s and 1880s, with its large front wheel providing high speeds, owing to it travelling a large distance for every rotation of the wheel.

4. Malvern Star - Wikipedia

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   Malvern Star advertisement from 1945 A vintage Malvern star frame, a "top of the range" Five Star model. Malvern Star opened in a small shop at 58 Glenferrie Rd, in the Melbourne suburb of Malvern in 1902. It was started by cyclist Tom Finnigan who established the shop with the prize he earned (240 gold sovereigns) by winning the 1898 Austral ...

5. Lucius Copeland - Wikipedia

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   Lucius Day Copeland was a pioneering 19th-century engineer and inventor from Phoenix, Arizona who demonstrated one of the first motorcycles, the Copeland steam bicycle, a steam-powered Star high-wheeler at the first Arizona Territorial Fair in 1884.

6. Overman Wheel Company - Wikipedia

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   The first Victor bicycle, introduced in 1883, was a three-wheeled bicycle produced in Chicopee Falls. [4] It was the first American-made three-wheeler. [4] Three-wheelers were at the time considered a safer alternative to the high wheeler bicycle and started to gain in popularity. [4] Overman also manufactured some high-wheelers in the 1880s. [4]

7. Copeland steam bicycle - Wikipedia

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   The Copeland steam bicycle was a steam powered, two-wheeled motor vehicle made by Lucius Copeland in 1881 and is sometimes classed as an early motorcycle. In 1881 Copeland designed an efficient small steam boiler which could drive the large rear wheel of a Columbia penny-farthing to a speed of 12 miles per hour (19 km/h). Unlike typical penny ...

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9. History of the bicycle - Wikipedia

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   There seems to have been no patent issue in France, where English bicycles still dominated the market. In 1880, G.W. Pressey invented the high-wheeler American Star Bicycle, whose smaller front wheel was designed to decrease the frequency of "headers". By 1884 high-wheelers and tricycles were relatively popular among a small group of upper ...