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Starley's 1885 Rover, manufactured in Coventry, England, is usually described as the first recognizably modern bicycle.
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In 1885, Starley's nephew John Kemp Starley took these new developments to launch the Rover Safety Bicycle, so-called because the rider, seated much lower and farther behind the front wheel contact point, was less prone to " a header " ( going over the bars ).
In 1885 James Starley's nephew, John Kemp Starley, invented the Rover Safety Bicycle-a rear-wheel-drive, chain-driven bicycle with two similar-sized wheels, which is essentially the design still used on bicycles today.
James Starley, a foreman at Coventry, began to make improvements and in 1885, the Starley Rover, a safety bicycle manufactured by Starley's nephew, John Kemp Starley, was the first recognisably modern bicycle.
Starley's and Rover
Starley's Rover is usually described by historians as the first recognisably modern bicycle.
Three years after Starley's death in 1901, and H. J. Lawson's subsequent takeover, the Rover company began producing automobiles with the two-seater Rover Eight to the designs of Edmund Lewis, who came from Lawson's Daimler.
Starley's and Coventry
" Starley's inventions started a tricycling craze in Britain ; by 1879, there were " twenty types of tricycles and multi-wheel cycles ... produced in Coventry, England, and by 1884, there were over 120 different models produced by 20 manufacturers.
It grew progressively from James Starley's Coventry Sewing Machine Company, via bicycle and motorised cycle manufacture.
Starley's and bicycle
Before the shape of the bicycle settled down following Starley's safety bicycle, there was a good deal of experimentation with various arrangements, and this included designs which might be considered recumbent.
While the bicycle was popular among wealthy young men in cities such as London, New York, and Paris, Starley's safety bicycle ushered in the " golden age of bicycles.
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Starley's employer, John Penn, bought a rare and expensive sewing machine.
Starley's sons continued manufacturing cycles after his death in 1881 but his nephew John Kemp Starley made more of a mark.
1885 and Rover
After developing the template for the modern bicycle with its Rover Safety Bicycle of 1885, the company moved into the automotive industry.
J. K. Starley made history in 1885 by producing the Rover Safety Bicycle — a rear-wheel-drive, chain-driven cycle with two similar-sized wheels, making it more stable than the previous high-wheel designs.
It was John Kemp Starley and Sutton who devised the recognisably modern Rover safety bicycle with 26-inch wheels ( still a standard size ), chain drive, and a diamond shaped frame ( no seat-tube as yet ) in 1884, showing it in 1885.
* Rover Company ( 1885 – 1967 ), a British bicycle, motorcycle and car manufacturing company, absorbed into Leyland Motor Corporation in 1967
1885 and manufactured
Earliest specimens of Z. B. D .- designed high-efficiency constant-potential transformers manufactured at the Ganz factory in 1885.
It was manufactured by Bolinders in Stockholm in 1884 – 1885.
Since 1885, the Bicycle brand has been manufactured by the United States Printing Company, which, in 1894, became the United States Playing Card Company of Cincinnati.
These newer cars ( units 1800 through 1885 ) use modern AC traction motors with solid state controls manufactured by General Electric, can only operate as mated pairs, and can partially interoperate with the older three series of cars in emergencies or non-revenue equipment moves, but normally are not interoperated in revenue service.
In 1885, IWC manufactured the first digital watch based on a patent granted to an Austrian by the name of Pallweber.
The cream cracker was invented by Joseph Haughton at his home in Dublin, Ireland, and then manufactured by William Jacob in a small bakery around 1885.
The company manufactured the first telephone in Japan in 1881, only five years after Bell invented the phone, and presented a silver-award winning lacquer-coated wire at the 1885 International Inventions Exhibition in London.
1885 and Coventry
The company began in 1885 when Siegfried Bettmann emigrated from Nuremberg, part of the German Empire, to Coventry in England.
He also sat as Liberal Member of Parliament ( MP ) for two separate five-year periods: for Coventry from 1880 to 1885, and for Bristol East from 1895 to 1900.
1885 and England
In England, he may have taught in two small schools in the South of the country ( Gorfein, 1885 ).
Although the New England Journal of Medicine reported the invention of the stethoscope two years later, in 1821, as late as 1885 a professor of medicine stated, " He that hath ears to hear, let him use his ears and not a stethoscope.
* 1885 – The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.
* Chuck Hawk's articles on the Ruger # 1, the Harrington & Richardson 1871 Single Shot Rifles, New England Firearms Single Shot Rifles, and The Winchester / Browning Model 1885 High Wall Rifle.
In 1885, he accepted the offer of a commission in the British Royal Engineers and trained in Chatham, England.
The 1885 novel After London by Richard Jefferies is of the type that could be best described as genuine " post-apocalyptic fiction "; after some sudden and unspecified catastrophe has depopulated England, the countryside reverts to nature, and the few survivors to a quasi-medieval way of life.
This gave socialising a cosmopolitan flavour: ' Russia, Sweden, England, Austria, Germany, France, Australia and the United States were represented at our table, all as one large family, and striving towards the same goal ,' the painter Annie Goater penned in 1885 in an essay on her recent experiences at one French colony.
The club has been nicknamed " The Saints " since its inception in 1885 due to its history as a church football team, founded as St Mary's Church of England Young Men's Association ( or St Mary's Y. M. A ) and has since played in red and white.
In 2001 the move from The Dell to the new Friends Provident St Mary's Stadium was a homecoming for Southampton F. C., because of the new stadium's proximity to St Mary's, the church where the club was founded on 21 November 1885 by members of the St Mary's Church of England Young Men's Association.
Category: 1885 establishments in England
' Seeking a contest with the Whigs, Chamberlain and Sir Charles Dilke presented their resignations to Gladstone on 20 May 1885, when the Cabinet rejected Chamberlain's scheme for the creation of National Councils in England, Scotland and Wales and when a proposed Land Purchase Bill did not have any provision for the reform of Irish local government.
The recommendations eventually led to the passage of the Sexual Offences Act 1967, applying to England and Wales only, that replaced the previous law on sodomy contained in the Offences against the Person Act 1861 and the 1885 Labouchere Amendment which outlawed every homosexual act short of sodomy.
In 1885, a New England lawyer, Frank Morrison Pixley, was guaranteed a title for from Reed's daughter, Hilarita.
Chester was home to Chester City F. C., who were founded in 1885 and elected to the Football League in 1931, and played at their Sealand Road stadium until 1990, spending two years playing in Macclesfield before returning to the city to the new Deva Stadium – which straddles the border of England and Wales – in 1992.
But see also Horace Walpole's Memoirs of the Reign of George II ( London, 1845 ); Lord Stanhope's History of England ( London, 1858 ); Lecky's History of England ( 1885 ); and ED Adams, The Influence of Grenville on Pitt's Foreign Policy ( Washington, 1904 ).
Following eight months of stressful work at a mental hospital in Elwyn, Pennsylvania, Uchimura resigned and traveled through New England, entering Amherst College in September 1885.
From 1852 to 1885, perforated pipe systems were used in textile mills throughout New England as a means of fire protection.
* T. J. Lawrence, Disputed Questions of Modern International Law ( 2nd ed., Cambridge, England, 1885 )
A revised edition of this work, with a historical and biographical introduction, was published in 1885 by Charles Plummer, under the title The Governance of England.
The London Necropolis Company ( LNC ), formally the London Necropolis & National Mausoleum Company until 1927, was a cemeteryunlawful in England, and on 26 March 1885 the first human cremation took place at Woking.
His second wife, Frances, died on February 19, 1885, while still in England.
Category: 1885 establishments in England
* The Purple Land that England Lost: Travels and Adventures in the Banda Oriental, South America ( 1885 )
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