Two hundred years of bicycles
By: Jim Murphy.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Lippincott
Published: 1983
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 60
Subjects: Bicycles -- History -- Juvenile literature.; Velocipedes -- History -- Juvenile.; Bicycles and bicycling -- History.
Description: Traces the history of bicycles from the French "celerifere" of 1791, through the nineteenth-century velocipede, hobby horse, boneshaker, and high-wheeler, to the modern racing bicycle and HPV.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 58.
Includes index.