In 1899 John Starley imported some of the early Peugeot motorcycles from France in for experimental development.

Starley married Jane Todd when he was in his early 20s.

His uncle, Josiah Turner, together with business partner James Starley used this as a basis for the ' Coventry Model ' in what became Britain's first cycle factory.

Kearny, who was not a climate scientist himself, based his conclusions almost entirely on the 1986 paper " Nuclear Winter Reappraised " by Starley Thompson and Stephen Schneider.

In 1876, James Starley developed the Coventry Lever Tricycle, which used two small wheels on the right side and a large drive wheel on the left side ; power was supplied by hand levers.

In 1877, Starley developed a new vehicle he called the Coventry Rotary, which was " one of the first rotary chain drive tricycles.

Makers developed " moustache " handlebars, allowing the rider's knees to clear them, " Whatton " handlebars, that wrapped around behind the legs, and ultimately ( though too late, after the Starley safety bike ), with the 1889 American Eagle and Star, the position of big and small wheel was reversed.

James Starley had built the Ariel ( spirit of the air ) high-wheeler in 1870 ; but this was a time of innovation, and when chain drives were upgraded so that each link had a small roller, higher and higher speeds became possible without the large wheel.

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 ).

This was entirely of his own design and manufacture, including the two-cylinder engine, apart from the wheels which he bought from Starley in Coventry.

The first Rover was a tricycle manufactured by Starley & Sutton Co. of Coventry, England, in 1883.

The company was founded by John Kemp Starley and William Sutton in 1878.

In 1888, Starley made an electric car, but it never was put into production.

James Starley ( 21 April 1831 – 17 June 1881 ) was an English inventor and father of the bicycle industry.

Starley was born in 1831 at Albourne, Sussex, the son of Daniel Starley, a farmer.

At 6am on the Monday the prototype was being made and at 8am Starley was stepping on to the London train to register patent No. 3388, 1877.

Their son, William Starley, and his nephew, John Kemp Starley, also entered the industry and one of the outcomes was the Rover car company.

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.

John Kemp Starley experimented with an electric tri-car around 1888 but the petrol-driven Rover 8hp car was sold in 1904, two years after his death.

The name was revived by James Starley and William Hillman in 1870 when they invented the wire-spoke wheel which allowed them to build a lighter weight bicycle and named it Ariel ( the spirit of the air ).

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.

J. K. Starley ( nephew of James Starley ), J. H. Lawson, and Shergold solved this problem by introducing the chain drive ( originated by the unsuccessful " bicyclette " of Englishman Henry Lawson ), connecting the frame-mounted cranks to the rear wheel.

Frenchman Eugene Meyer is now regarded as the father of the High Bicycle by the International Cycling History Conference in place of James Starley.

* 1876: James Starley of Coventry invents chain-drive differential for use on bicycles ; invention later used on automobiles by Karl Benz.

Starley had previously worked with his uncle, James Starley ( father of the cycle trade ), who began by manufacturing sewing machines and switched to bicycles in 1869.

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.

The Coventry Sewing Machine Company was founded by James Starley in 1859.

* John Kemp Starley demonstrates the Rover safety bicycle, regarded as the first practical modern bicycle.

* John Kemp Starley, inventor, born Walthamstow 1854.

About 1870, James Starley, described as the father of the bicycle industry, and others began producing bicycles based on the French boneshaker but with front wheels of increasing size, because larger front wheels, up to 1. 5 m ( 60 in ) in diameter, enabled higher speeds on bicycles limited to direct drive.

James Starley in Coventry added the tangent spokes and the mounting step to his famous bicycle named " Ariel.

The Rover Company is a former British car manufacturing company founded as Starley & Sutton Co. of Coventry in 1878.

In 1889, the company became J. K. Starley & Co. Ltd., and in the late 1890s, the Rover Cycle Company Ltd.

Charles had died two weeks before, in early November, without being reconciled to the Church.

Even Rector himself was prey to this spirit of competition and he knew it, not for a more exalted office in the hierarchy of the church -- his ambitions for the bishopry had died very early in his career -- but for the one clear victory he had talked about to the colonel.

This is the reason that Alfred divided his code into precisely 120 chapters: 120 was the age at which Moses died and, in the number-symbolism of early medieval biblical exegetes, 120 stood for law.

Her husband died, apparently in the early years of her marriage, leaving her with two children, Athalaric and Matasuntha ( c. 517 – after 550 ), wife c. 550 of Germanus.

Many members of the royal family died in rapid succession in early 1205, including Amalric himself.

Amalric's two older sons Guy an John, boys of about eight years of age, died early in 1205.

( born 1844 died 1919 ) ( Died early, fell from horse )

Despite his ill health, Haley began compiling notes for possible use as a basis for either a biographical film based on his life, or a published autobiography ( accounts differ ), and there were plans for him to record an album in Memphis, Tennessee, when the brain tumor began affecting his behavior and he went back to his home in Harlingen, Texas, where he died early in the morning of February 9, 1981.

Chaplin died in his sleep from the complications of a stroke in the early morning of 25 December 1977 at his home in Switzerland.

Tuđman died in 1999 and in the early 2000 parliamentary elections, the nationalist Croatian Democratic Union ( HDZ ) government was replaced by a center-left coalition under the Social Democratic Party of Croatia, with Ivica Račan as prime minister.

The majority, however, died early in their imprisonment due to exposure or sickness brought on by conditions in the surrounded army before the surrender.

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.

Unfortunately, Drusus died of asphyxiation in his early teens, shortly after becoming engaged to Junilla, the daughter of Sejanus.

The consensus of ancient historians was that Claudius was murdered by poison — possibly contained in mushrooms or on a feather — and died in the early hours of 13 October 54.

The couple adopted Katherine Lester in the early 1920s ; her father had been killed in World War I and her mother had died of tuberculosis.

In a number of nationally publicized cases in the early 1990s, prosecutors charged parents belonging to the Christian Science church with murder or manslaughter after their children died of likely curable ailments without being medically treated.

Corrado Gini died in the early hours of March 13, 1965.

However, although Gorbachev acted as a deputy to the general secretary throughout Andropov's illness, Gorbachev's time had not yet arrived when his patron died early in 1984.

His mother, surnamed Dan, died early in Deng's life, leaving Deng, his three brothers and three sisters.

Another widely distributed early story mentioning the Darwin Awards is the JATO Rocket Car, which describes a man who strapped a JATO ( Jet-Assisted Take-Off ) unit to his Chevrolet Impala in the Arizona desert and who died gloriously on the side of a cliff as his car achieved speeds of 250 to 300 miles per hour.

In the first few months of 1953 his sister died from liver cancer, one of his patrons took an overdose of sleeping pills, three friends died at an early age and Caitlin had another abortion.

His mother died when he was in his early teens.

Ishi died of his illness in early 1916, and Kroeber partly blamed the exacting nature of working with Sapir for his failure to recover.

It is the term by which the rite is referred to by the Didache ( late 1st or early 2nd century ), Ignatius of Antioch ( who died between 98 and 117 ) and Justin Martyr ( writing between 147 and 167 ).