1897 bicycle gear efficiency testing in "Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers"

Fogel Labs wants a 10-foot I-beam for Christmas:

http://books.google.com/books?id=6-d...age#PPA1067,M1

Nine pages, diagrams, equations, graphs, photos of other testing rigs,
and a comments section, in which Professor Kingsbury ignores the
results and predicts that smaller sprockets should be more efficient.

Cheers,

Carl Fogel