Scientific American "A Twenty Five Cent Bicycle" and "An Electric Bicycle Lamp" 1896

The February 1, 1896, "Scientific American" revealed the prototype of
the Fury Roadmaster, somewhat prematurely, in "A Twenty Five Cent
Bicycle," page 72:

http://i15.tinypic.com/6jyivz4.jpg

On the upper right of the same page, an amazing new bicycle lamp is
described, which produced a "remarkably powerful beam" of two
candlepower by means of a miniature electrical magneto turned by the
front tire.

Frank Krygowski is said to be pursuing the invention. :-)

Cheers,

Carl Fogel

wrote:
The February 1, 1896, "Scientific American" revealed the prototype of
the Fury Roadmaster, somewhat prematurely, in "A Twenty Five Cent
Bicycle," page 72:

http://i15.tinypic.com/6jyivz4.jpg

On the upper right of the same page, an amazing new bicycle lamp is
described, which produced a "remarkably powerful beam" of two
candlepower by means of a miniature electrical magneto turned by the
front tire.

Frank Krygowski is said to be pursuing the invention. :-)

Cheers,

Carl Fogel

It'll never work!

Elmo

On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:19:30 +0900, Elmo wrote:

wrote:
The February 1, 1896, "Scientific American" revealed the prototype of
the Fury Roadmaster, somewhat prematurely, in "A Twenty Five Cent
Bicycle," page 72:

http://i15.tinypic.com/6jyivz4.jpg

On the upper right of the same page, an amazing new bicycle lamp is
described, which produced a "remarkably powerful beam" of two
candlepower by means of a miniature electrical magneto turned by the
front tire.

Frank Krygowski is said to be pursuing the invention. :-)

Cheers,

Carl Fogel

It'll never work!

Elmo

Dear Elmo,

Since the 25-cent bicycle was tested in the hallways of "Scientific
American," your doubts must concern the lilliputian magneto driven by
the bicycle tire.

I agree that the belt and two pulleys may need a little tinkering, but
we _have_ to find an alternative to carbide lamps:


http://www.nostalgic.net/index.asp?S...ty+pg+26%2Ejpg

St. Elmo's fire, generated by the magneto, is the wave of the future!

Cheers,

Carl Fogel

wrote:
On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:19:30 +0900, Elmo wrote:

wrote:
The February 1, 1896, "Scientific American" revealed the prototype of
the Fury Roadmaster, somewhat prematurely, in "A Twenty Five Cent
Bicycle," page 72:

http://i15.tinypic.com/6jyivz4.jpg

On the upper right of the same page, an amazing new bicycle lamp is
described, which produced a "remarkably powerful beam" of two
candlepower by means of a miniature electrical magneto turned by the
front tire.

Frank Krygowski is said to be pursuing the invention. :-)

Cheers,

Carl Fogel
It'll never work!

Elmo

Dear Elmo,

Since the 25-cent bicycle was tested in the hallways of "Scientific
American," your doubts must concern the lilliputian magneto driven by
the bicycle tire.

I agree that the belt and two pulleys may need a little tinkering, but
we _have_ to find an alternative to carbide lamps:


http://www.nostalgic.net/index.asp?S...ty+pg+26%2Ejpg

St. Elmo's fire, generated by the magneto, is the wave of the future!

Cheers,

Carl Fogel

Carl I don't know where you get off on this new fangled device called
the "magneto". Elektricity has been firstly and most reliably produced
by static elektricity, change for the sake of change will get you
nowhere. I propose using your india rubber tyres, rubbing on cat fur to
generate sufficient elektricty to energize your lights. Ideally the cat
should be dead and wired with the correct polarity to the filament.
Oh and don't forget to discharge yourself before you dismount from your
bicycle.

Elmo

On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:47:14 +0900, Elmo wrote:

wrote:
On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:19:30 +0900, Elmo wrote:

wrote:
The February 1, 1896, "Scientific American" revealed the prototype of
the Fury Roadmaster, somewhat prematurely, in "A Twenty Five Cent
Bicycle," page 72:

http://i15.tinypic.com/6jyivz4.jpg

On the upper right of the same page, an amazing new bicycle lamp is
described, which produced a "remarkably powerful beam" of two
candlepower by means of a miniature electrical magneto turned by the
front tire.

Frank Krygowski is said to be pursuing the invention. :-)

Cheers,

Carl Fogel
It'll never work!

Elmo

Dear Elmo,

Since the 25-cent bicycle was tested in the hallways of "Scientific
American," your doubts must concern the lilliputian magneto driven by
the bicycle tire.

I agree that the belt and two pulleys may need a little tinkering, but
we _have_ to find an alternative to carbide lamps:


http://www.nostalgic.net/index.asp?S...ty+pg+26%2Ejpg

St. Elmo's fire, generated by the magneto, is the wave of the future!

Cheers,

Carl Fogel

Carl I don't know where you get off on this new fangled device called
the "magneto". Elektricity has been firstly and most reliably produced
by static elektricity, change for the sake of change will get you
nowhere. I propose using your india rubber tyres, rubbing on cat fur to
generate sufficient elektricty to energize your lights. Ideally the cat
should be dead and wired with the correct polarity to the filament.
Oh and don't forget to discharge yourself before you dismount from your
bicycle.

Elmo

Dear Elmo,

It was ever thus, the constant tension between longing for improvement
and clinging to the comfortable past.

The movie opens with Butch Cassidy unhappily eying the newfangled
security installed at the bank, but his motto is that he has vision
while the rest of the world wears bifocals.

Later, Butch is delighted at first by the bicycle that's the wave of
the future, but he finally throws it away in disgust with the modern
world in which bicycles are replacing horses and in which posses are
starting to use trains to chase robbers. Unable to cope with the end
of the wild days of the West, Butch heads off to backward Bolivia.

So you just keep thinking, Butch, that's what you're good at.

Me, I'm with Frank on this one. Dead cats aren't much better than
batteries, and neither is a match for the glorious power of the pedal
turning a tire to whirl the magneto.

I mean, who's going to pay to see "X-Men: The Return of the Dead Cat"
when they can watch a mutant named Magneto firing up two candle-power
bicycle lights with a wave of his hand?

Cheers,

Carl Fogel

wrote:
On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:47:14 +0900, Elmo wrote:

wrote:
On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:19:30 +0900, Elmo wrote:

wrote:
The February 1, 1896, "Scientific American" revealed the prototype of
the Fury Roadmaster, somewhat prematurely, in "A Twenty Five Cent
Bicycle," page 72:

http://i15.tinypic.com/6jyivz4.jpg

On the upper right of the same page, an amazing new bicycle lamp is
described, which produced a "remarkably powerful beam" of two
candlepower by means of a miniature electrical magneto turned by the
front tire.

Frank Krygowski is said to be pursuing the invention. :-)

Cheers,

Carl Fogel
It'll never work!

Elmo
Dear Elmo,

Since the 25-cent bicycle was tested in the hallways of "Scientific
American," your doubts must concern the lilliputian magneto driven by
the bicycle tire.

I agree that the belt and two pulleys may need a little tinkering, but
we _have_ to find an alternative to carbide lamps:


http://www.nostalgic.net/index.asp?S...ty+pg+26%2Ejpg

St. Elmo's fire, generated by the magneto, is the wave of the future!

Cheers,

Carl Fogel
Carl I don't know where you get off on this new fangled device called
the "magneto". Elektricity has been firstly and most reliably produced
by static elektricity, change for the sake of change will get you
nowhere. I propose using your india rubber tyres, rubbing on cat fur to
generate sufficient elektricty to energize your lights. Ideally the cat
should be dead and wired with the correct polarity to the filament.
Oh and don't forget to discharge yourself before you dismount from your
bicycle.

Elmo

Dear Elmo,

It was ever thus, the constant tension between longing for improvement
and clinging to the comfortable past.

The movie opens with Butch Cassidy unhappily eying the newfangled
security installed at the bank, but his motto is that he has vision
while the rest of the world wears bifocals.

Later, Butch is delighted at first by the bicycle that's the wave of
the future, but he finally throws it away in disgust with the modern
world in which bicycles are replacing horses and in which posses are
starting to use trains to chase robbers. Unable to cope with the end
of the wild days of the West, Butch heads off to backward Bolivia.

So you just keep thinking, Butch, that's what you're good at.

Me, I'm with Frank on this one. Dead cats aren't much better than
batteries, and neither is a match for the glorious power of the pedal
turning a tire to whirl the magneto.

I mean, who's going to pay to see "X-Men: The Return of the Dead Cat"
when they can watch a mutant named Magneto firing up two candle-power
bicycle lights with a wave of his hand?

Cheers,

Carl Fogel

Two candlepower? The average cyclist will never need that much power.

Elmo

On Dec 12, 7:47 am, Elmo wrote:
wrote:
On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:19:30 +0900, Elmo wrote:

wrote:
The February 1, 1896, "Scientific American" revealed the prototype of
the Fury Roadmaster, somewhat prematurely, in "A Twenty Five Cent
Bicycle," page 72:

http://i15.tinypic.com/6jyivz4.jpg

On the upper right of the same page, an amazing new bicycle lamp is
described, which produced a "remarkably powerful beam" of two
candlepower by means of a miniature electrical magneto turned by the
front tire.

Frank Krygowski is said to be pursuing the invention. :-)

Cheers,

Carl Fogel
It'll never work!

Elmo

Dear Elmo,

Since the 25-cent bicycle was tested in the hallways of "Scientific
American," your doubts must concern the lilliputian magneto driven by
the bicycle tire.

I agree that the belt and two pulleys may need a little tinkering, but
we _have_ to find an alternative to carbide lamps:

http://www.nostalgic.net/index.asp?S...9%20black%20be...

St. Elmo's fire, generated by the magneto, is the wave of the future!

Cheers,

Carl Fogel

Carl I don't know where you get off on this new fangled device called
the "magneto". Elektricity has been firstly and most reliably produced
by static elektricity, change for the sake of change will get you
nowhere. I propose using your india rubber tyres, rubbing on cat fur to
generate sufficient elektricty to energize your lights. Ideally the cat
should be dead and wired with the correct polarity to the filament.
Oh and don't forget to discharge yourself before you dismount from your
bicycle.

Elmo

Dear Mr Elmo:

My cat and I are taking time out from recording our Christmas Message
to the Commonwealth to tell you how disgusted we are with you apologia
for cat-haters.

Yours condescendingly,

Elizabeth II
by the Grace of God, Queen of England, etc
Windsor

PS There goes your knighthood, Elmo. And ditto to your mangy cat.

Cleopatra Midnight Champion III
Senior Lap Cat to Her Majesty
Top Castle Ratter three years in succession

On Dec 12, 5:34 am, wrote:
The February 1, 1896, "Scientific American" revealed the prototype of
the Fury Roadmaster, somewhat prematurely, in "A Twenty Five Cent
Bicycle," page 72:

http://i15.tinypic.com/6jyivz4.jpg

On the upper right of the same page, an amazing new bicycle lamp is
described, which produced a "remarkably powerful beam" of two
candlepower by means of a miniature electrical magneto turned by the
front tire.

I once drove a veteran car (British usage is that veteran cars are
only the pre-1914 ones, those that came later being "vintage") with a
solitary glass casing in what sat a solitary candle. Even that was an
optional extra...

A hub dynamo on the Continental town bike pattern is a real boon. My
current bike has a 2.4W headlamp run off the Shimano hub dynamo, the
other 0.6W operating the computer for the automatic gearbox and the
active suspension, and apparently also, at the same time, being in
reserve for running a rear light; both my rear lights are battery
operated. Even pedalling slowly uphill, say 10km an hour, there is
substantial light available, enough to make a bright spot in the wide
cast of my 15W touring lights, and to fill in some falloff in the
touring lights.

Frank Krygowski is said to be pursuing the invention. :-)

LOL. But those small beginnings are definitely paying off big now.
Today I can actually ride my bike after dark, and when a driver is
stupid, flash my lights right into his eyes to get his attention -- it
is noticeable on some lanes I ride where one can count on most of the
traffic to be local residents who know how narrow they are, that cars
see my lights half a mile away and slow until they pass me. On the
miserable sidewall dynamos and poor little glimmer-globes of only 15
years ago, I never dared go on the road after dark.

Cheers,

Carl Fogel

Andre Jute
http://members.lycos.co.uk/fiultra/B...20CYCLING.html

Wrote:
The February 1, 1896, "Scientific American" revealed the prototype of
the Fury Roadmaster, somewhat prematurely, in "A Twenty Five Cent
Bicycle," page 72:

http://i15.tinypic.com/6jyivz4.jpg

On the upper right of the same page, an amazing new bicycle lamp is
described, which produced a "remarkably powerful beam" of two
candlepower by means of a miniature electrical magneto turned by the
front tire.

Frank Krygowski is said to be pursuing the invention. :-)

Cheers,

Carl Fogel
Never mind the lamp, I'm more interested in the fact that the drive
sprocket on the 25 cent bike is on the outside of the frame. This
obviously means that the bearings are in the frame rather than in the
hub. Maybe we should be persuing this design for super strong wheels.
and axles.


--
Dan Burkhart

Per :
The February 1, 1896, ..."A Twenty Five Cent Bicycle,"

Anybody know if there are inflation adjustment figures that go
back that far?


http://minneapolisfed.org/Research/data/us/calc/
only goes back to 1913 but it comes up with basically a
five-dollar bike in 2007 dollars.
--
PeteCresswell