THE EVOLCTION O 7/ CYCLI.
shaker —that clamorous, rattling, wobbling
two-wheeled truck which astonished the
LALLEMENT'S AMTACHINE,
world 1 the sixties. Picerre Lallement, a French mechanic, 1s considered to be the inventor of this, and, indeced, until the dis- covery of Dalzell’s machine, was given the credit of inventing the balanced and crank- driven bicycle altogether. Lallement was i the employ ot M. Michaux, who madc three-wheeled velocipedes and perambu- lators 1 Paris. Somewhere before 1864 the design ot the boneshaker sprang mto bemg in the brain of the ingenious Talle- ment, and the concrete result in solid wood and iron is familiar to most ot us. Therc 15 another claim to having invented and ridden the cranked bicycle about this time on behalf of an Englishman named Phillips, but the evidence i1s weaker than that sup- porting the pretension of Lallement, of whose first dozen machines two were bought by residents i Ircland. Lallement was able to take out a patent for some part of his taachine 1 America, and his drawing then presented we reproduce. The pedals, it will be seen, are weighted, to keep them
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BECK'S MACHINE-
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right side up. One of these machimes was hown at the Paris Kxhibition of 130z, and in 1860 their use was taught at Spencer's Gymnasium, 1 Goswell-road, Fondon, Charles Dickens being for a short time one of Spencer’s puptls. Tonghish makers at once ~prang up, and Beck, Standev, Partrev, Keen, and the Coventry Machinists" Con- pany were some of the iirst. The machme made by Beck in 1870, which we tllustrate, was grcatly mmproved, and considered at the time to represent the high-water mark of cyeular invention. It was one of the first two or three bicveles fiited with india-
GLUAON S TACHINE.
rubber tvres, had an mmproved brake worked by oa string) and lee rest, and wolghed—what do vou think ? One hundred and fifty: pounds ! | Harkime back a httle, however, we hnd a dehightful invention in America, 18608, To describe it would bean nmpossibility, where- forec we reproduce the inventor, (rleason’s, drawing. Here 1= an mdependent cyclist who carric: with him not only his machine, but the road to ride on. Iere is Mr. Gleason's own description :— “The object of this invention is to obtain locomotion by the direct application of the weight of the opcerator. An endles: track, com- posed of the hingad parts ) C, as shown, lovsely close cach of the two wheels on a side, and are kept D