11-21-2016, 01:46 AM
[url=http://www.cycleworld.com/bicycle-mother-of-the-motorcycle-kevin-cameron-top-dead-center]"In the earliest years it was usually a progressive maker of bicycles who decided to branch out into motorcycle or auto making. People living in that time were getting used to revolutions – sailing ships giving way to steam, the expansion of railroad networks, machine tools, the driving of miles-long tunnels through solid rock."
Kevin Cameron provides another slightly quantish discussion of the appeal bicycles had for backyard mechanics and engineers over a century ago.
Bicycles were also the mother of the airplane (Wright Brothers) and were the first choice of imaginative dreamers Charles Lindbergh and James Doolittle, who all later stepped up to motorcycles and then aircraft, and finally ballistic missiles and rocketry through Robert Goddard and W. Von Braun.
Kevin Cameron provides another slightly quantish discussion of the appeal bicycles had for backyard mechanics and engineers over a century ago.
Bicycles were also the mother of the airplane (Wright Brothers) and were the first choice of imaginative dreamers Charles Lindbergh and James Doolittle, who all later stepped up to motorcycles and then aircraft, and finally ballistic missiles and rocketry through Robert Goddard and W. Von Braun.