In the early 1860s, Frenchmen Pierre Michaux and Pierre Lallement took bicycle design in a new direction by adding a mechanical crank drive with pedals on an enlarged front wheel ( the velocipede ).

A game of Croquet being played at Eglinton Country Park | Eglinton Castle, North Ayrshire, in the early 1860s.

The immense size of the Union army ( the largest on the planet toward the end of the Civil War ), however, was viewed with increasing concern by Maritimers throughout the early 1860s.

In the late 1860s or early 1870s, Pissarro became fascinated with Japanese prints, which influenced his desire to experiment in new compositions.

Clipper ship sailing card for the " Free Trade ", printed by Nesbitt & Co., NY, early 1860s

By the early 1860s, the relationship between the imperial court and the Shogunate was changing radically.

In the early 1860s, when the United States Congress was considering organizing a new territory in the Rocky Mountains, eccentric lobbyist George M. Willing suggested the name " Idaho ," which he claimed was derived from a Shoshone language term meaning " the sun comes from the mountains " or " gem of the mountains ".

Booth invested some of his growing wealth in various enterprises during the early 1860s, including land speculation in Boston's Back Bay section.

This appeared in 1876, though it had been begun ( and a version of the first movement seen by some of his friends ) in the early 1860s.

In the early 1860s he worked on composing three large volumes, the Theories of Surplus Value, which discussed the theoreticians of political economy, particularly Adam Smith and David Ricardo.

" More than 30 national craft unions were established during the 1860s and early ' 70s.

In the 1860s, descriptions of boys who grew progressively weaker, lost the ability to walk, and died at an early age became more prominent in medical journals.

Minié system rifles, notably the U. S. Springfield and the British Enfield of the early 1860s, featured prominently in the U. S. Civil War, due to their enhanced power and accuracy.

Children and teenagers were early collectors of stamps in the 1860s and 1870s.

In the 1860s and continuing into the early 20th century, miners dumped staggering quantities of mud and gravel from hydraulic mining operations into the upper Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers.

In the late 1860s and early 1870s, a series of mass rallies called tabori, modeled on the Irish monster meetings, were organized in support of the United Slovenia program.

From the 1860s through 1871, early forms of the periodic table proposed by Dimitri Mendeleev contained a gap between molybdenum ( element 42 ) and ruthenium ( element 44 ).

This crude projection of moving images occurred as early as the 1860s.

The first being the Formative period starting around the 1860s, the second being the Systematization period beginning in the early 1950s, and the Integration period which began about 1969.

" The plot centers on " accidental bigamy " which was in literary fashion in the early 1860s.

During the late 1860s and early 1870s, from within his father's firm in Charing Cross and, by late 1874, from a nearby address in Craig's Court, Carte began to build an operatic, concert and lecture management agency.

The first butter factories appeared in the United States in the early 1860s, after the successful introduction of cheese factories a decade earlier.

The Owens Valley had received scant attention from European Americans before the early 1860s, as it was little more than a crossroads of the routes through the area.

There is no specific creation date of the steps, however they are believed to be built during the early 1860s when they provided the only means of accessing the One Tree Hill Summit.

Solomon's father Mintus was a freedman, who had been a slave in the early part of his life in service to the Northup family.

In June, 1960, an early draft of the questionnaire, along with a cover letter, was mailed to fourteen companies in the state of Washington.

Anyone fortunate enough to have one of those early phones advertised the fact along with the telephone number in the Manchester Journal.

There is much to be said for a college that, while happily attuned to the sophisticated Ivies, still gives its students a chance to get up early in the morning and drive along back roads where a glimpse of small game, deer, or even bear is not uncommon.

Though that may be unfair since Ben Cooper, John's first son, came along early in 1938, the cutest baby you ever saw and a blessing that he looked all Cooper from fontanel to pink toes, nary a trace of Edythe.

The Agrarians believed that Chinese society should be modeled around that of the early sage king Shen Nong, a folk hero which was portrayed in Chinese literature as " working in the fields, along with everyone else, and consulting with everyone else when any decision had to be reached.

It comes, along with the name of the River Aar ( which was called Arula, Arola, and Araris in early times ), from the German Au, meaning floodplain.

Most of IBM's early binary " scientific " computers, beginning with the vacuum tube IBM 701 in 1952, used a single 36-bit accumulator, along with a separate multiplier / quotient register to handle operations with longer results.

Some scholars see Beowulf as a product of these early tales along with Gesta Danorum and Hrólfs saga kraka.

These occurrences, along with a Bieda who is mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle under the year 501, are the only appearances of the name in early sources.

* In 1990, Haley's eldest son, John W. Haley, along with John von Hoëlle wrote Sound and Glory, a biography focusing mostly on Haley's early life and peak career years.

It is expected that the BBC News Channel will relocate, along with other BBC news services including BBC World News to the newly refurbished Broadcasting House in late 2012 / early 2013, after completion of the new television news studios has taken place and it will be relaunched.

The quake produced a furrow in the ground along the fault line in Berkeley, across the grounds of the new State Asylum for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind then under construction, which was noted by one early University of California professor.

Also in the early 1970s, the soundtrack for the ground-breaking animated film Fritz The Cat contained his song " Bo Diddley ", in which a crow idly finger-pops along to the track.

Nonetheless, immigrants, Arabic-speaking or otherwise, played a significant role, along with Islam, in the formation and early evolution of these states.

While the rail infrastructure dates from colonial and early republican times, passenger service along the principal Havana to Santiago corridor is increasingly reliable and popular with tourists who can purchase tickets in Cuban convertible pesos.

The two living non-archosaurian reptile taxa, testudines ( turtles ) and lepidosaurs ( snakes, lizards, and amphisbaenians ( worm lizards ), along with choristoderes ( semi-aquatic archosauromorphs that died out in the early Miocene ), survived through the K – T boundary.

The Spanish settled along the north coast of today's Colombia in the early 16th century, but their first permanent settlement, at Santa Marta, was not established until 1525.

Keychord sets were used at Xerox PARC in the early 1980s, along with mice, GUIs, on the Xerox Star and Alto workstations.

Prehistoric mammals of the crown-clade Carnivoramorpha ( Carnivora and Miacoidea without Creodonta ), along with the early order Creodonta, and some mammals of the even earlier order Cimolesta, were true carnivores.

In the early period it was the name of a small territory in southern Babylonia extending along the northern and probably also the western shores of the Persian Gulf.

Evidence that curling existed in Scotland in the early 16th century includes a curling stone inscribed with the date 1511 ( uncovered along with another bearing the date 1551 ) when an old pond was drained at Dunblane, Scotland.

One of his early GM moves brought in a young Phillies minor-league 3rd baseman named Ryne Sandberg, along with Larry Bowa for Ivan DeJesus.

Rather than pursuing his opponent, Constantius then turned his attention to securing the Danubian border, where he spent the early months of 352 campaigning against the Sarmatians along the middle Danube.

Medieval military doctrine employed them as part of a combined-arms force along with various kinds of foot troops ; however medieval chroniclers tended to pay undue attention to the knights at the expense of the rank and file, which led early students of military history to suppose that this heavy cavalry was the only force that mattered on medieval European battlefields, which was not the case.

An early published notice on him, dating from 1604 and describing his lifestyle three years previously, tells how " after a fortnight's work he will swagger about for a month or two with a sword at his side and a servant following him, from one ball-court to the next, ever ready to engage in a fight or an argument, so that it is most awkward to get along with him.