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.

In the early 1860s, Northup, along with another black man, aided a Methodist minister in Vermont in helping fugitive slaves on the Underground Railroad.

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.

Many of the early European residents in the Holyland region in the southern part of the county were emigrants from the Schleswig-Holstein region in Germany in the 1840s.

During the early part of his engagement to Reiss, he had been unaware that Kunke was pregnant: their son Bodo was born on 14 October 1911 and was raised by his grandmother, Elise Kunke, in Schleswig-Holstein following Friede's death from tuberculosis in 1918.

The Eastern Question began as early as the 2 December 1852 with the Napoleonic coup against the Second Republic of France.

Some of the main trends in modern Homeric scholarship have been, in the 19th and early 20th centuries, Analysis and Unitarianism ( see Homeric Question ), schools of thought which emphasized on the one hand the inconsistencies in, and on the other the artistic unity of, Homer ; and in the 20th century and later Oral Theory, the study of the mechanisms and effects of oral transmission, and Neoanalysis, the study of the relationship between Homer and other early epic material.

After the PRC was founded, early policies on ethnic relations were guided by Joseph Stalin's 1913 Marxism and the National Question.

He identified the origins of the concept in the antiphonal music of the late renaissance and early baroque, in the antiphonal use of four brass ensembles placed in the corners of the stage in the Requiem of Hector Berlioz and, most importantly, in works of Charles Ives, in particular The Unanswered Question.

His celebrity status gave him early access to political media and television programmes including the BBC's " Question Time ", while being an MP in a small party brought quick promotion to the front bench as local government spokesman.

The soundtrack of the film, by Tykwer, Johnny Klimek, and Reinhold Heil, includes numerous musical quotations of the sustained string chords of The Unanswered Question, an early 20th-century chamber ensemble work by American composer Charles Ives.

He also presented Quiz Ball ( a football quiz ) on BBC television during the early 1970s and he was the original host of the long running sports quiz A Question of Sport ( at that time only broadcast in the North of England ); and in the late 1990s he presented Going, Going, Gone, an antiques quiz show for the BBC and provided the voice-over for God's Gift for Granada.

Some of Hawker's rulings, from motions put by the Australian Labor Party Opposition, were somewhat controversial early in his term, with one session of Question Time on 1 December 2004 resulting in twelve points of order, some continuously raised, to Brendan Nelson's response to a question on school funding raised by Sophie Mirabella, in that it was seen by the Opposition to anticipate debate.

There is almost universal agreement that this text was later expanded by numerous other authors, following the " Question and Answer " pattern established in the early books.

This resulted in British versions of popular American quiz show The $ 64, 000 Question having a maximum prize initially of 64, 000 sixpences (£ 1, 600 ) in the late 1950s, and in the early 1990s of just £ 6, 400, the format being adjusted so that " The Six Thousand Four Hundred Pound Question " was only asked every other week so as not to break the regulatory £ 3, 200 / week maximum.

Question 1 was for an amendment to allow early voting.

Although the safety of American citizens, mostly Christian missionaries and Jews, was a major concern in the Ottoman Empire early in his ambassadorship, Morgenthau stated that the one issue he was most preoccupied was the Armenian Question.

The Irish Question was a phrase used mainly by members of the British ruling classes from the early 19th century until the 1920s.

At an early age Kállay manifested a deep interest in politics, and especially in the Eastern Question.

Hyam Maccoby has argued that " On the Jewish Question " is an example of what he considers to be Marx's " early anti-Semitism.