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Very Good- 151pp; Slight dampstaining to back cover, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG-condition. Writings on the beginnings of cycling. Illustrated.
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Good in Good jacket. xiv, 151, [3] pages. Illustrations. Some edge soiling. DJ has some wear, soiling, and tears. Signed by the author on the title page. Irving Albert Leonard (December 1, 1896 in New Haven, Connecticut-October 1, 1996 in Alexandria, Virginia) was an American historian and translator, specializing in Hispanic history and art. His best known publications are Books of the Brave (1949) and Baroque Times in Old Mexico: Seventeenth-Century Persons, Places and Practices (1959), which won the Conference on Latin American History award for the best book in English. Books of the Brave, a valuable account of the introduction of literary culture to Spain's New World, was updated in 1992. He had many papers published in the American Historical Review and the Hispanic American Historical Review, such as A Frontier Library, 1799 (Feb. 1943, vol. 23, no. 1, p. 21-51). In 1960, Leonard served as chair of the Conference on Latin American History, the professional organization of Latin American historians. Some of the contents of this volume previously appeared in issues of American Cycling (now Bicycling). Vehicles that have two wheels and require balancing by the rider date back to the early 19th century. The first means of transport making use of two wheels arranged consecutively, and thus the archetype of the bicycle, was the German draisine dating back to 1817. The term bicycle was coined in France in the 1860s, and the descriptive title "penny farthing", used to describe an "ordinary bicycle", is a 19th-century term. Drais's velocipede provided the basis for further developments: in fact, it was a draisine which inspired a French metalworker around 1863 to add rotary cranks and pedals to the front-wheel hub, to create the first pedal-operated "bicycle" as we today understand the word. The first mechanically propelled two-wheel vehicle is believed by some to have been built by Kirkpatrick Macmillan, a Scottish blacksmith, in 1839. Philipp Moritz Fischer built the very first bicycle with pedals in 1853. As the first bicycle craze took hold, many other blacksmiths began forming companies to make bicycles. Velocipedes were expensive, and when customers soon began to complain about the cast-iron frames breaking, the Oliviers realized by 1868 that they needed to replace that design with the diagonal one which their competitors were already using, and the Michaux company continued to dominate the industry in its first years. On the new macadam paved boulevards of Paris it was easy riding, although initially still using what was essentially horse coach technology. It was still called "velocipede" in France, but in the United States, the machine was commonly called the "bone-shaker". Later improvements included solid rubber tires and ball bearings. The development of the safety bicycle was arguably the most important change in the history of the bicycle. It shifted their use and public perception from being a dangerous toy for sporting young men to being an everyday transport tool for men and women of all ages. John Dunlop's reinvention of the pneumatic bicycle tire in 1888 had made for a much smoother ride on paved streets. As with the original velocipede, safety bicycles had been much less comfortable than high-wheelers precisely because of the smaller wheel size, and frames were often buttressed with complicated bicycle suspension spring assemblies. The pneumatic tire made all of these obsolete, and frame designers found a diamond pattern to be the strongest and most efficient design. Cycling steadily became more important in Europe over the first half of the twentieth century, but it dropped off dramatically in the United States between 1900 and 1910. Automobiles became the preferred means of transportation.
