Scientific American trick riding 1894 and 1897

On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 16:13:00 -0700, wrote:

On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 13:21:07 -0800 (PST), Sheldon Brown

Is there some central repository of ancient back issues, sort of like
the wonderful Cornell "Making of America" series?

The gorgeous new Lovell diamond-frame safety bicycle for 1891 appears
illustrated with coasting pegs in "Manufacturer & Builder":


http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-b...S1821-0024-481

Two-inch tires and only 43 pounds!

Cheers,

Carl Fogel

On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 16:13:00 -0700, wrote:

On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 13:21:07 -0800 (PST), Sheldon Brown
wrote:

Is there some central repository of ancient back issues, sort of like
the wonderful Cornell "Making of America" series?

( http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/moa_browse.html )
Page after page of bicycle boom ads in the quarterly Century Magazine
bicycle advertising section for April 1896:


http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-b...ames=1&view=50

Sixteen men stand on an Eclipse bicycle to show how strong it is!

The true Palmer single-tube tire makes hose-pipe tires look stiff and
lifeless and very slow!

A cycle seat adjustable for each buttock!

Nude women without nipples floating on fields of Vim tires!

A picture of all the tools that you'll need to change a punctured
Dunlop tire!

The 28-inch (71 cm) Dauntless frame!

Cheers,

Carl Fogel

On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 16:13:00 -0700, wrote:

Is there some central repository of ancient back issues, sort of like
the wonderful Cornell "Making of America" series?

( http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/moa_browse.html )

Over the Alps in Century Magazine for April, 1989:


http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-b...P2287-0055-191

Ms. Pennell is more interesting when she writes about cycling through
the mountains of Europe than when she cruised around London
(unbearable). See how many passes sound familiar.

Cheers,

Carl Fogel

On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 16:13:00 -0700, wrote:

On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 13:21:07 -0800 (PST), Sheldon Brown
wrote:

Is there some central repository of ancient back issues, sort of like
the wonderful Cornell "Making of America" series?

( http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/moa_browse.html )

That link _does_ have Scientific American, but only to 1869, well
before the highwheeler era began around 1875.

From the last issue in the series, June 12, 1869, here's the kind of
velocipede (bare metal wheel, front pedals) that the highwheeler
replaced:


http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-b...BF2204-1020-26

Those are coasting pegs on the front. The huge front wheel of the
penny-farthing increased the pathetic gearing and smoothed the ride
(which further improved with solid rubber tires).

Unlike the Gutenberg Scientific Americans, these are scans of the
actual pages from beginning to end, not just selected articles.

Cheers,

Carl Fogel

On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 16:13:00 -0700, wrote:

Is there some central repository of ancient back issues, sort of like
the wonderful Cornell "Making of America" series?

( http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/moa_browse.html )

Scribner's magazine joins the bike boom in ads for 1895:


http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-b...ames=1&view=50

Twelve pages of vapid ads, with a completely unrelated and wildly
racist cartoon thrown in by some confused editor.

Cheers,

Carl Fogel

Quoth Paul Myron Hobson:


My Firefox (Mac):
The image loads resized to the width of the window. Placing the cursor
over image, the cursor changes to a magnifying glass with a plus sign in
it. Clicking expands them image to full size.

Safari:
Same exact thing.

Oh yes, this is a new feature in the latest version of Safari. It was
shrinking the images to fit the vertical size of my screen. Clicking
the magnifying glass did the trick.

Happy Beethoven's Birthday to all!

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Sheldon Brown wrote:

Quoth Paul Myron Hobson:


My Firefox (Mac):
The image loads resized to the width of the window. Placing the cursor
over image, the cursor changes to a magnifying glass with a plus sign in
it. Clicking expands them image to full size.

Safari:
Same exact thing.

Oh yes, this is a new feature in the latest version of Safari. It was
shrinking the images to fit the vertical size of my screen. Clicking
the magnifying glass did the trick.

Happy Beethoven's Birthday to all!

Sheldon "Still Learning Panther Or Whatever The Current Kittykat Name
Is" Brown

Ocelot. "Quick Look" is just plain useful. "Coverflow view" is
surprisingly practical. Making the menu bar transparent was silly.

--
Ryan Cousineau http://www.wiredcola.com/
"My scenarios may give the impression I could be an excellent crook.
Not true - I am a talented lawyer." - Sandy in rec.bicycles.racing

On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 19:39:54 GMT, Ryan Cousineau
wrote:

In article
,
Sheldon Brown wrote:

Quoth Paul Myron Hobson:


My Firefox (Mac):
The image loads resized to the width of the window. Placing the cursor
over image, the cursor changes to a magnifying glass with a plus sign in
it. Clicking expands them image to full size.

Safari:
Same exact thing.

Oh yes, this is a new feature in the latest version of Safari. It was
shrinking the images to fit the vertical size of my screen. Clicking
the magnifying glass did the trick.

Happy Beethoven's Birthday to all!

Sheldon "Still Learning Panther Or Whatever The Current Kittykat Name
Is" Brown

Ocelot. "Quick Look" is just plain useful. "Coverflow view" is
surprisingly practical. Making the menu bar transparent was silly.

Dear Ryan & Sheldon,

The upcoming "Moggie" operating system is rumored to be large enough
to handle any amount of creeping feature bloat.

Here are a few of the fatter feline candidates being considered for
mascot status:

http://messybeast.com/freak-size.htm

Guinness no longer accepts submissions for overfed monster moggies,
but the computer world shows no signs of such ethical qualms.

Cheers,

Carl Fogel

On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 19:39:54 GMT, Ryan Cousineau may
have said:

Making the menu bar transparent was silly.

Creeping Vistaism.

I recently emailed an eBay seller to ask if he would possibly be
willing to provide a laptop *without* the added Vista lookalike skin
pasted on to XP, which was listed as a "feature" in the seller's ad.
The response was "Oh, everyone just loves it, we do that to all our
laptops now."

I placed my bid elsewhere.

A friend has been making a nice side income from upgrading* systems
from Vista to XP, and he even does it with genuine licensed installs.
It says something, that folks are willing to lay out an added $180 to
get Vista *removed* from their shiny new toy. (Dell apparently has
that as a factory option again, due to not just overwhelming but
completely intractable customer demand. Some corporate buyers were
reportedly saying "Ship XP, or ship in pieces and we'll assemble the
system and install the OS ourselves.")



* Microsoft wants to call this a downgrade, but as with the South Lake
Union Trolley, the public's opinion is at variance with the wishes of
the people who own the name.

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Typoes are not a bug, they're a feature.
Words processed in a facility that contains nuts.

Using a camera to duplicate from a microfilm reader isn't that hard, but
it does take a bit of setup.

You'll want a camera whose flash can be turned off, a sturdy tripod, and
something to block ambient light to avoid reflections. When I did it, I
used a sheet of cheap black cloth draped over the top of the reader and
over a couple of chairs stacked behind the tripod.

Alternatively, if the library would tolerate it, a laptop and a roll-fed
scanner could get through a hundred-foot roll of microfilm in a few
hours.

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is Joshua Putnam
http://www.phred.org/~josh/
Braze your own bicycle frames. See
http://www.phred.org/~josh/build/build.html