Velocipedomania : : A Cultural History of the Velocipede in France / / Seth Whidden, Corry Cropper.
When blacksmith Pierre Michaux affixed pedals to the front axle of a two-wheeled scooter with a seat, he helped kick off a craze known as velocipedomania, which swept France in the late 1860s. The immediate forerunner of the bicycle, the velocipede similarly reflected changing cultural attitudes and...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Lewisburg, PA : : Bucknell University Press, , [2022] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (266 p.) :; 42 b-w illus., 6 color illus. |
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