Tricycle, Patent Model
date: label: date made
content: 1880
label: patent date
content: 1880-02-03
name: label: patentee
content: Fowler, Francis
label: inventor
content: Fowler, Francis
notes: label: Description
content: Francis Fowler of New Haven, Connecticut, submitted this model with his patent for a tricycle equipped with a ratchet connection in the hub of each driving wheel. The patent was issued patent number 224,165 on February 3, 1880. The allowed the outer of the two driving wheels to rotate freely on the crankshaft when the machine was making a sharp turn, thus d the function of a modern automobile differential unit. This model of the Fowler tricycle was transferred from the U.S. Patent Office to the Smithsonian in 1926. It is not known that this tricycle was ever manufactured.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: associated place
content: United States: Connecticut, New Haven
label: Associated Place
content: United States: Connecticut
topic: label: Subject
content: Patent Models
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Transportation, Road
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content: America on the Move
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content: Transportation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TR.309257
label: catalog number
content: 309257
label: accession number
content: 89797
label: patent number
content: 224,165
objectType: label: Object Name
content: patent model, tricycle
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
label: Other Terms
content: patent model, tricycle; tricycle; Road
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in x 11 in x 11 in; 25.4 cm x 27.94 cm x 27.94 cm