Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,345 pages of information and 244,505 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
1869 Patent. '2558. To John Brown, of Padiham, in the county of Lancaster, Overlooker, for the invention of "improved means of, and appliances for, facilitating the exercise or riding of bicycles or velocipedes."'[1]
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