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rnkucipeue puiMUPinetiuruugD lagun involved by bicyle and tricycle j, and it ia with maoh pleasure ul the introduction of a nowA Skw Tbiso rs Trictcles.—An evening contemporary says that it Tina been fa* Toured with the eight of an entirely new thing in tricycles which, it believe*, is dee-lined to make some impression upon public sympathise in this age of fsncy locomotion. The exertion of velocipede working—an exertion which aifecta portions of the human frame least able to bear it—has naturally constituted one most reasonable objection to the modern bicycle. Laying asido the accidents which fall prominently under the public eye, we have much reason to believe that much of material injury may be ultimstely done to the velocipede enthusiast through the constant strain foot-working that we hail machine whioh promisee results equivalent to those obtainable under the present system with infinitely lese initiatory trouble or risk of accident or injury in practice, than ia involved in tho case of the velocipede. An Oxford clergyman, the Rev. Robert II. Charaley, ia the inventor and patentee of what be haa christened the “ velocimane, a machine which, as its namo implies, involves tho principlo of handwork as a means of loonmo-motion. It might be pramature for us here to give a full description of Mr. Chareley's invontion, which will doubtless b’ soon in the msrket; but it tuay suflico to aay that tbs volocimane is by no means a ponderous tricycle, that the seat which it affords is oom-fortahls and sooure, that it# mods of steering is original and Ingsoious, that Its paoo is si-cnediuglv good, and, finally, that tbs power to work ll successfully Usasilv acquired, and unlikely to be productive of any mow injurious bodily effect than tha strengthening of the muscles of srins and chest-the mm-unit aud heosAcial rwull of Ubivewily row-(M.
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Goulburn Herald and Chronicle
Goulburn, New South Wales, AU
Sat, Dec 04, 1869
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