Identifier: stnicholasserial251dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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lychainless. It is true that twin driving-rods,which act as do the pistons on a locomo-tive, are employed to transmit power; buta short chain is used between two ordinarysprockets before the power is given to thedriving-rods for transmission. An outward viewshows only the rods and an oval-shaped box atthe crank hanger. Inside this box is a sprocket THE STORY OF THE WHEEL. 455 similar to that used on the chain-driven bicycle;behind it is a smaller sprocket whose axle-center is just three and one half inches fromthat of the larger sprocket; a chain runs be-tween these, and it is the axle of the smallersprocket that sets the driving-rods in motion.Outside the box is a small lever arm attached prove that their own particular inventions arethe best. One firm, I am told, has engagedthe services of a well-known clubman whohas undertaken to ride a century on everyday throughout this year. If he should succeedin his task, he will probably have covered agreater distance than any other wheelman.
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RECENT FORMS OF CHAINLESS BICYCLES. to either end of this secondary sprocket axle,and the rods, which are each connected withthis arm, run on ball bearings. At the axleof the rear wheel the driving-rods are similarlyconnected. Manufacturers of chainless bicycles gener-ally are resorting to all sorts of methods to Thirty-six thousand five hundred miles on a chainless is an achievement requiring noordinary amount of determination and perse-verance. The chainless wheel is still in its infancy,and it is probable that several years must passbefore it attains perfection. THE BUCCANEERS OF OUR COAST. By Frank R. Stockton. ,wLu2§l te^l^^S^^^^By^E^ at I...-/ i fj^L :: ■ iff v t i / ^BJH^^B^^^-Tfl dm\ WM iM^^ ^r P * »w fn x . J)y HENRY MORGANS CREW SEIZING THE FRENCH PIRATES. (SEE PAGE 460.) (This series was begun in the November number.\ Chapter XVI. A PIRATE POTENTATE. Sometime in the first half of the seventeenthcentury, on a secluded Welsh farm, was born alittle boy. His father was a fa

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