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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 |
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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 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 |
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Scientific American trick riding 1894 and 1897
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 |
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Scientific American trick riding 1894 and 1897
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 |
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Scientific American trick riding 1894 and 1897
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 +-------------------------------------------+ | How to Write Like A ******: | | http://guidenet.net/resources/******.html | +-------------------------------------------+ Harris Cyclery, West Newton, Massachusetts Phone 617-244-9772 FAX 617-244-1041 http://harriscyclery.com Hard-to-find parts shipped Worldwide http://captainbike.com http://sheldonbrown.com |
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Scientific American trick riding 1894 and 1897
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. -- 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 |
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Scientific American trick riding 1894 and 1897
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 |
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Scientific American trick riding 1894 and 1897
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. -- My email address is antispammed; pull WEEDS if replying via e-mail. Typoes are not a bug, they're a feature. Words processed in a facility that contains nuts. |
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Scientific American trick riding 1894 and 1897
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. -- is Joshua Putnam http://www.phred.org/~josh/ Braze your own bicycle frames. See http://www.phred.org/~josh/build/build.html |
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