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The bicycle ranks as one of the most enduring, most widely used vehicles in theworld, with more than a billion produced during almost two hundred years of cycling history. Thisbook offers an authoritative and comprehensive account of the bicycle's technical and historicalevolution, from the earliest velocipedes (invented to fill the need for horseless transport during ashortage of oats) to modern racing bikes, mountain bikes, and recumbents. It traces the bicycle'sdevelopment in terms of materials, ergonomics, and vehicle physics, as carried out by inventors,entrepreneurs, and manufacturers.
Written by two leading bicycle historians andgenerously illustrated with historic drawings, designs, and photographs, BicycleDesign describes the key stages in the evolution of the bicycle, beginning with thecounterintuitive idea of balancing on two wheels in line, through the development of tension-spokedwheels, indirect drives (employing levers, pulleys, chains, and chainwheels), and pneumatic tires.The authors examine the further development of the bicycle for such specific purposes as racing,portability, and all-terrain use; and they describe the evolution of bicycle components includingseats, transmission, brakes, lights (at first candle-based), and carriers (racks, panniers,saddlebags, child seats, and sidecars). They consider not only commercially successful designs butalso commercial failures that pointed the way to future technological developments. And they debunksome myths about bicycles -- for example, the mistaken but often-cited idea that Leonardo sketched achain-drive bike in his notebooks. Despite the bicycle's long history and mass appeal, itstechnological history has been neglected. This volume, with its engaging and wide-ranging coverage,fills that gap. It will be the starting point for all future histories of the bicycle.
作者簡介
Tony Hadland is the author of Raleigh: Past and Presence of an Iconic Brand and other books. He is based in Oxfordshire, U.K. Hans-Erhard Lessing, formerly Professor of Physics at the University of Ulm and curator at Technoseum Mannheim and ZKM Karlsruhe, has written biographies of Karl Drais and Robert Bosch as well as books on bicycle history books published in Germany.
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