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Two Wheels Good

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Author : Jody Rosen
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2022-05-24

Two Wheels Good written by Jody Rosen and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-24 with History categories.

A panoramic revisionist portrait of the nineteenth-century invention that is transforming the twenty-first-century world “Excellent . . . calls to mind Bill Bryson, John McPhee, Rebecca Solnit.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker The bicycle is a vestige of the Victorian era, seemingly at odds with our age of smartphones and ride-sharing apps and driverless cars. Yet we live on a bicycle planet. Across the world, more people travel by bicycle than any other form of transportation. Almost anyone can learn to ride a bike—and nearly everyone does. In Two Wheels Good, journalist and critic Jody Rosen reshapes our understanding of this ubiquitous machine, an ever-present force in humanity’s life and dream life—and a flash point in culture wars—for more than two hundred years. Combining history, reportage, travelogue, and memoir, Rosen’s book sweeps across centuries and around the globe, unfolding the bicycle’s saga from its invention in 1817 to its present-day renaissance as a “green machine,” an emblem of sustainability in a world afflicted by pandemic and climate change. Readers meet unforgettable characters: feminist rebels who steered bikes to the barricades in the 1890s, a prospector who pedaled across the frozen Yukon to join the Klondike gold rush, a Bhutanese king who races mountain bikes in the Himalayas, a cycle-rickshaw driver who navigates the seething streets of the world’s fastest-growing megacity, astronauts who ride a floating bicycle in zero gravity aboard the International Space Station. Two Wheels Good examines the bicycle’s past and peers into its future, challenging myths and clichés while uncovering cycling’s connection to colonial conquest and the gentrification of cities. But the book is also a love letter: a reflection on the sensual and spiritual pleasures of bike riding and an ode to an engineering marvel—a wondrous vehicle whose passenger is also its engine.

Invisible Bicycle

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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2018-09-11

Invisible Bicycle written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-11 with Technology & Engineering categories.

The Invisible Bicycle brings together different insights into the social, cultural and economic history of the bicycle and cycling in historical eras of ubiquitous bicycle use that have remained relatively invisible in bicycle history. It revisits the typical timeline of cycling’s decline in the 1950s and 1960s and the renaissance beginning in the 1970s by bringing forth the large national and local variations, varying uses and images of the bicycle, and different bicycle cultures as well as their historical background and motivations. To understand the role, possibilities and challenges of the bicycle today, it is necessary to know the history that has formed them. Therefore The Invisible Bicycle is recommended also to present-day practitioners and planners of bicycle mobility. Contributors are: Peter Cox, Martin Emanuel, Tiina Männistö-Funk, Timo Myllyntaus, Nicholas Oddy, Harry Oosterhuis, William Steele, Manuel Stoffers, Sue-Yen Tjong Tjin Tai, Frank Veraart.

Fifty Bicycles That Changed The World

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Author : Alex Newson
language : en
Publisher: Conran Octopus
Release Date : 2013-09-02

Fifty Bicycles That Changed The World written by Alex Newson and has been published by Conran Octopus this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-02 with Sports & Recreation categories.

The Design Museum brings you fifty bicycles that changed the world we live in! The bicycle is the world's most popular form of transport. From the penny-farthing, the Dandy-horse and the Velocipede the design of the bicycle has evolved over the decades both in terms of style and technology. From high-performance cycles to practical run-arounds, conceptual bikes to commercial models, Alex Newson explores the 50 most important, pivotal bicycles from around the world. The bicycle is the world's most popular form of transport. From the penny-farthing, the Dandy-horse and the Velocipede the design of the bicycle has evolved over the decades both in terms of style and technology. From high-performance cycles to practical run-arounds, conceptual bikes to commercial models, here are the 50 most important, pivotal bicycles from around the world. Contents Includes... Laufmaschine c.1817 Velocipede c.1863 Safety Bicycle c.1880 The tandem 1898 The cargo bike 1900s BSA 3-Speed Hub 1930-40 Flying Pigeon PA-02 c.1950 PARIS Galibier c.1947 Raleigh Chopper 1969 Dawes Galaxy 1971 Avatar 2000 1980 AM series Moulton Bicycle 1983 STRiDA 1985 Kestrel 4000 1986 'Old Faithful' 1993 Airnimal Chameleon c.2000 Bianchi Pista Chrome 2007 EADS Airebike 2011 Faraday Porteur 2013 ...And Much More!

The American Cyclopaedia

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Author : George Ripley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1883

The American Cyclopaedia written by George Ripley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1883 with Encyclopedias and dictionaries categories.

The Science Of A Bicycle

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Author : Ian Graham
language : en
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Release Date : 2009-01-01

The Science Of A Bicycle written by Ian Graham and has been published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.

Uses the example of a bicycle to explore forces and how they work, discussing gravity, friction, acceleration, and torque.

Bicycles Tricycles

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Author : Archibald Sharp
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896

Bicycles Tricycles written by Archibald Sharp and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1896 with Bicycles categories.

London Bicycle Club Gazette

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1882

London Bicycle Club Gazette written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1882 with categories.

An Alternative History Of Bicycles And Motorcycles

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Author : Steven E. Alford
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2016-04-06

An Alternative History Of Bicycles And Motorcycles written by Steven E. Alford and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-06 with Transportation categories.

An Alternative History of Bicycles and Motorcycles: Two-Wheeled Transportation and Material Culture accounts for the nineteenth-century creation and development of two-wheeled vehicles, both human-powered and motorized. Specifically, the book focuses on the period from 1885 (which saw the appearance, simultaneously, of the Safety bicycle and the Einspur, the first motorcycle) to 1920, while exploring implications for later bicycling and motorcycling. We argue that invention of these vehicles, rather than the product of gifted individuals, should be seen as the consequence of a number of historical, economic, cultural and political forces that intersect so unpredictably that the notion of a genius inventor is reductive. The common evolutionary model of development from the bicycle to the motorcycle oversimplifies both the technology and its origins. Stripping the vehicles of all their material and cultural associations, such a model fails to advance our understanding of the devices, their creators, and their riders. Taking a contemporary vehicle and tracing its lineage creates a false sense of evolutionary necessity in its creation, and fails to account for the many possible developmental paths that were, for whatever reason, abandoned. By contrast, our book adopts a material culture approach, a form of inquiry that stresses the connections between artifacts and social relations. We consider not simply the bicycle and motorcycle as material objects but focus also on the complex socio-political and economic convergences that produced the materials, materials that in turn themselves shaped the vehicles’ appearance, function, and adoption by riders.

Cycling Art Energy And Locomotion A Series Of Remarks On The Development Of Bicycles Tricycles And Man Motor Carriages

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Author : ROBERT P. SCOTT.
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1889

Cycling Art Energy And Locomotion A Series Of Remarks On The Development Of Bicycles Tricycles And Man Motor Carriages written by ROBERT P. SCOTT. and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1889 with categories.

The Bicycle And How To Ride It By A Practical Bicyclist

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Author : Bicycle
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1882

The Bicycle And How To Ride It By A Practical Bicyclist written by Bicycle and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1882 with Bicycles categories.