Frank Krygowski wrote:

The book _Bicycles & Tricycles, An Elementary
Treatise_ is probably interesting only to
those who love the history of engineering.
It was written well over 100 years ago.
I enjoyed finding out what they knew back
then - which was quite a lot

Well, how fast were the fastest cars in the
early 20th century? 130 km/h?

I mean, wasn't this the Jules Verne,
ballon-to-the-north-pole, Titanic, pre-WW1
hay days of this kind'a stuff?

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