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Cycle History 2

Proceedings, 2nd International Cycling History Conference

Format: 8½ x 11 in. softcover, photocopied and tape-bound volume
Description: X160 pages with 50 black & white illustrations
ISBN: N/A
Price: US$50
 
Another volume in our series of Proceedings of the International Cycling History Conferences. Included are all the papers presented at the 2nd Conference, held in St. Etienne, France, 1991.
Please note that this is a paper-bound photocopied volume.

 
Ordering Note:

This volume was originally published by the organizers of the conference and does not have an assigned ISBN. Copies can be ordered directly from us by sending a check for US$50.00 to us, specifying the book ordered. For non US-orders, please send an international money order (available at the Post Office or bank) in the amount of US$65, which includes postage.

Table of Contents
Author Title of Paper Page
Keizo Kabayashi
 		 Les sources et la bibliographie sur l’histoire du cycle
(French Sources and Bibliography on Cycle History) 		9
12
Glynn Stockdale The Tabley Hobby-Horse
(La Draisienne de Tabley) 		15
19
Hans-Ehrard Lessing Around Michaux: Myths and Realities
(Autour de Michaux: mythes et réalités) 		21
30
Augusto Marinoni La Bicyclette de Leonardo da Vinci
(Leonardo da Vinci's Bicycle) 		34
36
Keizo Kobayashi Les frères Olivier
(The Olivier Brothers) 		38
42
Nick Clayton The Development of the Suspension Wheel
(L’Avènement de la roue à rayons en tension) 		46
50
Roland Sauvaget Etat présent des études historiques cyclistes en France
(Cycle hisotry research in France) 		54
56
Leslie Bowerman Cycle History Research in Britain
(La recherche historique cycliste en Grande Bretagne) 		58
59
Andrew Millward The Birth of the Cycle Industry in England
(La naissance de l'industrie du cycle en Angleterre) 		60
63
Nicholas Oddy The Machine Aesthetic: Marketing the Bicycle in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries
(L’Esthétique de la machine: l’art de vendre la bicyclette à la fin du 19ième et au début du 20ième) 		66

71
Nadine Besse Les bicyclettes Hirondelle de la manufacture française d’armes et cycles de Saint-Etienne
(The Hirondelle Bicycles of the Manufacture Française d’Armes and Cycles of Saint-Etienne) 		77
85
Raymond Henry Vélocio et les changements de vitesse
(Vélocio and multiple gearing) 		89
105
Philippe Gaboriau Cyclisme et Esthétique Fonctionnelle dans le roman “Voici des Ailes” de Maurice Leblanc (1898)
(Cycling and Functional Aesthetics in Maurice Leblanc's novel «Voici des Ailes» (1898)) 		113

117
Henri Bosc Il y a cent ans: les précurseurs du cyclotourisme et les premiers récits de voyages: Maurice Martin
(A Hundred Years Ago: Early French Cycle-Tourists and Their Accounts of Tours, with Special Mention of Maurice Martin) 		120

128
Jean-Pierre Baud Le Vélo dans les Alpes 1935-1939
(Cycling in the Alps 1935-1939) 		133
137
Walter Ulreich Austria and Bicycle History
(Histoire de la Bicyclette en Autriche) 		140
142
B. Gougaud Note sur Barthélémy Thimonnier
(A Note on Barthélémy Thimonnier) 		143
144

 

 
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