- Velocipede
- A Palanquin in India
There have been various modifications of the litter, familiar examples being the funeral bier and the modern stretcher. Another development is the palanquin, a distinctive form of transport in the East. - The Man-drawn sledge
Sledges have played an important part in polar exploration, and were used,in varying degree, by Sir W.E.Parry , Sir John Franklin, and other early explorers of the Arctic. - Lawson's Bicyclette, 1879
- The famous Beeton Humber bicycle ordinary, 1884
- 'Bone-shaker' bicycle, 1869
In 1839 Kirkpatrick Macmillan, a blacksmith of Courthill, Dumfriesshire, fitted pedals and cranks to the rear wheel, but again the machine was a failure. About 1864 Pierre Lallement, of Paris, adopted a front-wheel drive by fitting cranks and pedals, and, strange to say, this ‘bone-shaker,' as it was called, became the first popular bicycle The back-bone was of solid iron, and the wooden wheels had iron tires. It was introduced into England in 1868, and large numbers were made and used. In 1869 wire-spoked wheels were introduced by E.A.Cowper, and in the following year solid rubber tyres,and ball bearings in 1878. - Johnson's Hobby Horse, 1818
Although pedal-operated carriages were known in the Middle Ages (during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries many light vehicles of this type were introduced), the earliest form of the bicycle was the hobby-horse, or ‘dandy-horse' as it was sometimes called. This consisted of two wheels mounted in a kind of frame with a saddle for the rider, who was seated sufficiently low to be able to propel the vehicle forward by striking his feet on the ground. The earliest machines of this kind were in use about 1810 but their riders were so ridiculed that ' hobby horses' went out of use. In 1818 an improved form was patented by Baron von Draisin France, and brought over to England in the same year by Denis Johnson, a coachmaker of Long Acre, who called it the‘pedestrian curricle.’ It consisted of a wooden bar, or back-bone, mounted on two wheels, the front one being pivoted in a fork to allow the machine to be steered and balanced. The machine was propelled by the rider leaning his elbows on a padded support, and alternately striking the road with his feet. In this way, a speed of 10 miles an hour sometimes could be maintained on the level. Riders generally 'coasted' downhills, but when a hill had to be ascended the machine was carried on the rider's shoulders! A hobby-horse weighed about 50 pounds and cost about £10. - Mail Coaches Racing - Something Wrong with the Opposition Coach
- old times sketch
- Coach
- Racing
- Tandem
- Tandem
- The Stage Coach - Old Times
- Bicycle Locomotive No. 2
- Bicycle Flat Car
- Bicycle Locomotive No. 1
- Bicycle Box Freight Car
- Bicycle Coal Car
- Single Bicycle Elevated Structure
- Single Electric Bicycle Structure
- Single Post, Double track, Steel Elevated Bicycle structure
- Screenshot (35767)
- Sectional View of Bicycle Motor Car
- Side view of bicycle motor wheel
- Combiined Elevated and Surface Structure
- Cross Section of Bicycle Structure and Bicycle Electric Car
- Elevated Double Track Georgia Pine Structure
- Elevated Railroad Station
- Screenshot (35750)
- Bicycle Palace CAr
- Bicycle Railway Switch
- Bicycle Sleeping and Accommodation Coach
- Bicycle sytem applied to N.Y. Elevated railway
- Bicycle Locomotive No. 3
- Central Calif. Traction Co. Car 105 on Stockton Blvd
- Folsom Power House
- Sacramento Electric, Gas and Railway Co., Car 2
- Sacramento Electric, Gas and Railway co. on the J Line
- Car 14 at the S.P. Depot
- Car 42 at N St. Carbarn
- Sacramento City Lines Car 90
- Sacramento City Lines Car on 10th Street near M St., 1946
- Central Calif. Traction Co. Car 103 at Colonial Heights
- P.G. and E. Car 37, A wooden type, on the 3 line, 1941
- Sacramento City Lines Cars at S.P. Depot
- Sacramento Northern Car 64 on C Street
- P.G. and E Car at Oak Park
- P.G. and E Carbarns at 28t hand N, 1914
- Sacramento Trolley System Map
- A Light Egyptian Chariot
The light chariots of the Egyptians enabled them to secure the fullest advantage from the speed and breeding of their horses, which at the time were considered to be the finest in the world. The Egyptian chariots were sometimes square, but more often they were semi-circular or horse-shoe shape, with the curved front towards the horses. - Out for a ride
- Ride in the automobile
- An Old-fashioned Train of Cars
An Old-fashioned Train of Cars - The 'Hercules' Traction Engine, as used during the Crimean War
During the Crimean War, Boydell’s traction machine was used to haul open trucks on the road and across country. Its engine, the “Hercules,” was fitted with a curious arrangement, which, by means of rails attached in six sections to the wheels, enabled it to lay down and take up its own track as it went along. - A 'Fischer' Combination Omnibus
- Plan of a Behr Mono-Railway Car
But a means of adapting a mono-rail to every condition had some time before been thought out. In 1883-4 Charles Lartigue, the eminent French engineer, developing the principle conceived by the great Telford, constructed some small lines in Tunis and Algeria for carrying esparto grass. The cars were drawn by animals in a special form of mono-rail, the model upon which Mr. F. B. Behr, ASS. INST. C.E.—who modestly disclaims all originality in the matter—has worked for years, greatly improving in practical details the original design, and constructing for the first time mono-rail trains that have been successful in the carriage of both goods and passengers by steam and electricity. - Electrical Power House
Electrical Power House (the largest in the Old World), Lot’s Road, Chelsea, to supply the Metropolitan District and other Railways with Current - A Krupp motor gun-carrying lorry
- A ‘Schneider’ armoured car with quick-firing gun