Book Description
The Wooden Bicycle is a handy reference for those who have a true passion for the beauty and aesthetics of the modern bicycle in the wooden form, and a strong belief in a more sustainable way of living.
Author : Kiriakos Iosifidis
Publisher : Images Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,96 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Bicycles
ISBN : 9781864707144
The Wooden Bicycle is a handy reference for those who have a true passion for the beauty and aesthetics of the modern bicycle in the wooden form, and a strong belief in a more sustainable way of living.
Author : Tikum Mbah Azonga
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 44,67 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9956558354
The wooden bicycle -- Fateful ride -- One way ticket -- One of a kind -- The money -- Moment of truth -- Caught in-between -- A matter of choice -- Daddy's boy -- Chicken soup.
Author : Janey C. Bailey
Publisher :
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 12,49 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Bicycles
ISBN :
Author : Muyambi Muyambi
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 50,43 MB
Release : 2019-09-30
Category :
ISBN : 9780578516899
The tale of a child obsessed with owning a bicycle to the point that he takes matters into his own hands.
Author : Edward Gorey
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 25,59 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780151003143
The story of an intrepid voyage of epic proportion with a hero unequaled in the annals of literature. Gorey is "a man of enormous erudition . . . an artist and writer of genius" ("The New Yorker").
Author : Kat Jungnickel
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 20,27 MB
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1912685434
An illustrated history of the evolution of British women's cycle wear. The bicycle in Victorian Britain is often celebrated as a vehicle of women's liberation. Less noted is another critical technology with which women forged new and mobile public lives—cycle wear. This illustrated account of women's cycle wear from Goldsmiths Press brings together Victorian engineering and radical feminist invention to supply a missing chapter in the history of feminism. Despite its benefits, cycling was a material and ideological minefield for women. Conventional fashions were unworkable, with skirts catching in wheels and tangling in pedals. Yet wearing “rational” cycle wear could provoke verbal and sometimes physical abuse from those threatened by newly mobile women. Seeking a solution, pioneering women not only imagined, made, and wore radical new forms of cycle wear but also patented their inventive designs. The most remarkable of these were convertible costumes that enabled wearers to transform ordinary clothing into cycle wear. Drawing on in-depth archival research and inventive practice, Kat Jungnickel brings to life in rich detail the little-known stories of six inventors of the 1890s. Alice Bygrave, a dressmaker of Brixton, registered four patents for a skirt with a dual pulley system built into its seams. Julia Gill, a court dressmaker of Haverstock Hill, patented a skirt that drew material up the waist using a mechanism of rings or eyelets. Mary and Sarah Pease, sisters from York, patented a skirt that could be quickly converted into a fashionable high-collar cape. Henrietta Müller, a women's rights activist of Maidenhead, patented a three-part cycling suit with a concealed system of loops and buttons to elevate the skirt. And Mary Ann Ward, a gentlewoman of Bristol, patented the “Hyde Park Safety Skirt,” which gathered fabric at intervals using a series of side buttons on the skirt. Their unique contributions to cycling's past continue to shape urban life for contemporary mobile women.
Author : Audrey Wood
Publisher : Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,23 MB
Release : 1999-05
Category : Bicycles and bicycling
ISBN : 9780689826825
Teased by bullies about her broken-down bike, Nona sets her sights on a Deluxe Red Racer. But her parents won't buy her a new bike when she still has her old one. Nona is suddenly tempted by a "wicked thought" about how to get what she wants. "Nona's naughtiness is unmistakable but understandable. . . . Strong visuals and a believable heroine make a winning combination."--"School Library Journal, " starred review. Full color.
Author : Robert Penn
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,19 MB
Release : 2015-10-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0141977523
Robert Penn cut down an ash tree to see how many things could be made from it. After all, ash is the tree we have made the greatest and most varied use of over the course of human history. Journeying from Wales across Europe and Ireland to the USA, Robert finds that the ancient skills and knowledge of the properties of ash, developed over millennia making wheels and arrows, furniture and baseball bats, are far from dead. The book chronicles how the urge to understand and appreciate trees still runs through us all like grain through wood.
Author : Elizabeth Robins Pennell
Publisher :
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 36,62 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Alps
ISBN :
Author : Gilbert King
Publisher : Running Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,77 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Bicycles
ISBN : 9780762412624
This photographic survey is richly illustrated with images of one of the world's largest private collections of bicycles from the 1850s to the 1950s and includes some never-before-published photographs. From antique high wheelers and "boneshakers" to tandems, tricycles, and circus clown bikes, it proves a fascinating historical retrospective of the bicycle's development and evolution. Gil King is a writer, editor, and photographer whose work has appeared in many national publications.