Object Details
- Description
- St. George's Engineering Company of Birmingham, England manufactured this New Rapid safety bicycle in 1889. The cycle has an improved cross frame with crank-bracket stay and a small footrest on the front wheel for coasting. A small leather tool bag hangs from the steering-head stay. Attached to a bracket on the front of the steering head is an oil lamp marked "Zacharias & Smith, Bicycle Sundries, Newark, N. J." The cycle is emblematic of the type produced in Britain during the 1880s.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of H. K. Griffith
- 1889
- ID Number
- TR.201660.1
- catalog number
- 201660
- accession number
- 35291
- Object Name
- Bicycle, Safety
- bicycle
- Other Terms
- Bicycle, Safety; Road
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Transportation, Road
- Bicycling
- America on the Move
- Transportation
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_843316
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a6-77a4-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
