“The lines _g_ hold and keep the rods to the action of their crank-arms, and cause the rods to be properly brought, from time to time, by the cranks into operating positions on the ground.” * * * * * This device is a logical sequence of Mr. Croft’s, being a combination of shoving-bars worked by machinery instead of by hand. This patent is now expired and can be used by anybody. [Illustration: E. N. Higley, of Somersworth, N. H. Velocipede. No. 201,179. Patented March 12, 1878.] “The invention consists in an arrangement of pulleys upon each side of the crank-arm, and pulleys of similar construction upon the sides or ends of the axle of the road-wheel, and connected together by chains or other suitable means, whereby the carriage may be propelled by the feet alone without turning around or otherwise operating the hand-shaft; or the hand-shaft may be employed, when desired, to aid or assist the feet, as circumstances may require; or both sets of pulleys may be used by the hands and feet to increase the speed of the carriage.” [Illustration: W. Klahr, of Meyerstown, Pa. Bicycle. No. 285,821. Patented October 2, 1883.] Mr. Klahr was one of the early geniuses that appreciated the utility of the anti-vibrator. Notice the spring upon the front reach. This is a device quite similar to that used by many makers of rear-drivers in the past few years. The inventor does not claim this, however. [Illustration: Bruton’s English Patent. Provisional specification. No. 208. January 18, 1879.] IMPARTING MOTION TO VELOCIPEDES, &c. (_This Invention received Provisioned Protection only._) “+Edward George Bruton+, of No. 1, Park Crescent, Oxford. ‘+Certain Improvements in the Form and Method of Imparting Motion to Velocipedes, Carriages, or other Vehicles.+’ “This Invention consists of a new form of imparting motion to velocipedes or other vehicles having three or more wheels, which wheels shall receive their motion from a traversing platform, to which motion is imparted by walking or running thereon; the platform consisting of endless bands, of a substance offering resistance to the foot, passing over rollers suspended from the said vehicle, which rollers, by pulley-bands, chains, or other means, put in motion certain wheels of the said vehicle and thereby propel the same.” * * * * * We have heard the tricycle compared to a tread-mill by unkind and wearied riders, but it has remained for our English brother, Mr. Bruton, to make the comparison a veritable fact. [Illustration: F. Langmaak and P. Streiff, of San Francisco. Velocipede. No. 228,908 Patented June 15, 1880.] A LEVER-MOTION UNICYCLE. “... By having a pair of the levers an alternate motion is kept up and a continuous revolution of the driving-wheel maintained.