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A penny-farthing in the Škoda Auto Museum, Czech Republic. The penny-farthing, also known as a high wheel, high wheeler or ordinary, is an early type of bicycle. [1] It was popular in the 1870s and 1880s, with its large front wheel providing high speeds, owing to it travelling a large distance for every rotation of the wheel.
Frenchman Eugène Meyer is now regarded as the father of the high bicycle [37] by the ICHC in place of James Starley. Meyer invented the wire-spoke tension wheel in 1869 and produced a classic high bicycle design until the 1880s. A penny-farthing or ordinary bicycle photographed in the Škoda museum in the Czech Republic
High Wheel and Antique (Early 19th century-1933)—Early bicycles were all experiments and came in a dizzying variety of shapes. From primitive “hobby horses” to the giant High Wheel or Penny Farthing bicycles of the 1880s, collectors have gathered and studied these strange designs.
It fell out of favor after the summer of 1869 and was replaced in 1870 with the type of bicycle called "ordinary", "high-wheel", or "penny-farthing". Few original boneshakers exist today, most having been melted for scrap metal during World War I. [3] Those that do surface from time to time command high prices, typically up to about $5,000 US.
Copeland steam bicycle, a steam-powered Star, 1884. Smith also offered tricycles in 1887 and 1888 [10] and patented a steam tricycle in 1889. [11] [12] At the first Maricopa County Fair in 1884, Lucius Copeland demonstrated his steam bicycle, one of the first motorcycles, a steam-powered Star high-wheeler. It was claimed to have traveled 1 mile ...
Eagle built high wheels including a 48", 50" and 52" inch high wheel in the 1880s. They weighed 35 to 50 pounds and cost $40 to $150. They weighed 35 to 50 pounds and cost $40 to $150. In 1890, Frank E. Weaver made one of the first ever USA transcontinental bicycle trips ( Thomas Stevens has claims to the first in 1884) on a 48" Eagle bicycle.
Jul. 15—On a warm Saturday afternoon, spectators gathered in downtown Frederick for the National Clustered Spires High Wheel Race. People pressed up against the metal railings closing off the ...
Ariel—50" high wheel bicycle Ariel tricycle circa 1902. The original company was established in 1870 by James Starley and William Hillman.They built wire-spoke wheels under the first British patent; this allowed them also to build a lighter "penny farthing" bicycle which they named 'Ariel' (the spirit of the air).