“... In which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that we, the said Thomas Bramley or Robert Parker, or one of us, shall cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His said Majesty’s High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.” [Illustration: A. Julien. French patent. June 30, 1830.] FRENCH PATENT. M. JULIEN. JUNE 30, 1830. The French patent to M. Julien, date of June 30, 1830, of whose machine a cut will be found on the opposite page, seems to be for a sort of combination of cycle and plough. It is to be inferred that M. Julien proposes to do up his ploughing, and then mount his cycle and off to town for an airing. Jeering and contemptuous cyclers will be liable to overlook a novel and invaluable feature of this invention relating to security in descending long and dangerous hills. The rider can, by easy manipulation of certain simple and ingenious devices, lower the plough and thereby bring into operation a brake of great power and unquestionable holding-back proclivities. As to the steering, it does not appear, from the drawing, how this may be accomplished, but so fertile a brain cannot have left this necessary adjunct unprovided for. That the machine can be worked with little exertion is implied by the skilful introduction, on the part of the draughtsman, of the chimney-pot hat which adorns the brow of the supposed agricultural gentleman upon the box, and also by the general appearance of ease and comfort which pervades the entire picture. [Illustration: Cochrane. English patent. No. 6150. August 10, 1831.] “PROPELLING CARRIAGES AND VESSELS, DRIVING MACHINERY, &c. “COCHRANE’S SPECIFICATION. “+To all to whom these presents shall come, I, Alexander Cochrane+, of Norton Street, Great Portland Street, in the county of Middlesex, Esquire, send greeting. “+And be it remembered+, that on the Tenth day of February, in the year of our Lord 1832, the aforesaid Alexander Cochrane came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose. “Inrolled the Tenth day of February, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.” * * * * * This rowing-motion carriage has been invented over again several times since 1831. [Illustration: Dalzell machine, 1845.] “THE ORIGINAL BICYCLE.