AN ELECTRIC VELOCIPEDE.
The electric light has been applied to the bicycle before now to light up the road in front of ifc, but M. Trmiv., of Paris, is the first to do away with pergonal exertion and drive the vehicle itself by the electric current. He effects this by connecting each axle to a small electric motor of his own construction, in such a manner that the rotation of the motor turns the wheels. The motors are fbemselves driven by the current stored up in secondary batteries, carried by the velocipede. Recent trials with an English tricycle made in the Rue de Valois, an asphalted thoroughfare in Paris, showed that the vehicle, which with its occupant weighed nearly four hundred-weight, could bo maintained by the current at the speed of of an ordinary cub f-.<r tho space of an hour. jV£, 'i'reuvo iw i>i>ty >\b vjork on an improved
liiov--'?, wiii.h h<- }<i-us. *i)l Mifllee to !rive th« 'riuv.-I'j at the sp-ed of twelve or fifteen oj'lo.i nn hour ; nnd this mof-fir, combined '.*i(ii Faure's secondary buttery, ought to make the electric trioycle a practical invention, highly nseful to the ivalided or the wealcly.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3194, 23 September 1881, Page 4
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195AN ELECTRIC VELOCIPEDE. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3194, 23 September 1881, Page 4
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