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    The Roper steam velocipede was a steam-powered velocipede built by inventor Sylvester H. Roper of Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts, United States sometime...
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    the Roper steam velocipede of 1867 or 1868, and the internal combustion engine Daimler Reitwagen of 1885. Perreaux continued development of his steam cycle...
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    Boston, Massachusetts. In 1863 he built a steam carriage, one of the earliest automobiles. The Roper steam velocipede of 1867–1869 may have been the first...
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    Pierre Michaux metal framed velocipede, creating the Michaux-Perreaux steam velocipede. Along with the Roper steam velocipede, it might have been the first...
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    constructed around the same time as the American Roper steam velocipede, built by Sylvester H. Roper of Roxbury, Massachusetts, who had been demonstrating...
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    Geneva steam bicycle Marks motorcycle (1896-1901) Millet motorcycle Pennington motor bicycle Roper 1896 steamer bike (see also Roper steam velocipedes) Werner...
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    control was on the Roper steam velocipede of 1867-69. Rather than a sleeve that rotated around the handlebar, Sylvester H. Roper's steam motorcycle's entire...
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  • that they invented or designed. Sylvester H. Roper (1823–1896), inventor of the Roper steam velocipede, died of a heart attack or subsequent crash during...
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    nationalaviation.org. Retrieved: May 30, 2011. Johnson, Paul F. "Roper Steam Velocipede". Archived April 7, 2011, at the Wayback Machine National Museum...
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    mainstream sources of the merits of Michaux-Perreaux steam velocipede or Roper steam velocipede versus the Reitwagen, there is no debate that considers...
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  • Museum Hall of Fame - Sylvester Roper". motorcyclemuseum.org. Retrieved 2 February 2017. "Roper Steam Powered Velocipede or Motocycle". stanleymotorcarriage...
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    Michaux-Perreaux steam velocipede of 1868. The Michaux-Perreaux was followed by the American Roper steam velocipede of 1869, built by Sylvester H. Roper of Roxbury...
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    coal-powered, two-cylinder, steam-driven motorcycle known as the Roper steam velocipede invented by Sylvester Howard Roper in 1867; or perhaps a French...
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    steam engines. The earliest example is the French Michaux-Perreaux steam velocipede of 1868. This was followed by the American Roper steam velocipede...
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  • no. 2050, Lowell, Massachusetts, 6 January 1863, S.H. Roper, of Roxbury, has invented a steam wagon for common roads, which stops, turns corners, backs...
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  • first steam driven two wheeled vehicle is the Michaux-Perreaux steam velocipede created in France.[dubious – discuss] 1869 – Sylvester H. Roper of Massachusetts...
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  • has 11 motorcycles, dating from 1901 through to the 1960s. 1869 Roper Steam Velocipede (replica) 1901 Steffey Motor-Bicycle 1919 ABC Sopwith 400 1919 Harley-Davidson...
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  • "America on the Move | Roper steam velocipede". National Museum of American History. 2008-10-24. Retrieved 2009-08-14. "America on the Move | Clarke gasoline...
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  • Sylvester H. Roper of Roxbury, Massachusetts, developed a twin-cylinder steam velocipede, with a coal-fired boiler between the wheels. Roper's contribution...
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    Germany Y Y Roper steam velocipede N/A 1894 United States Y Hildebrand & Wolfmüller 1,489 cc (90.9 cu in) 1894 Germany Y Y Geneva steam bicycle n/a 1896...
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    the world (the oldest are functional replicas of Sylvester H. Roper's 1869 steam velocipede). This has inspired the Phoenix Museum of History to build a...
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  • trains. 1868 – Louis-Guillaume Perreaux's steam velocipede, a steam engine attached to a Michaux velocipede. 1869 - Jules Suriray, a Parisian bicycle...
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    exported all over the world. By 1870, he was manufacturing carousels with Velocipedes (an early type of bicycle) and he soon began experimenting with other...
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  • engine. 1817: Baron Karl von Drais invents the dandy horse, an early velocipede and precursor to the modern bicycle. 1818: Marc Isambard Brunel invents...
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  • June 5, 2014 (2014-06-05) It's full steam ahead when returning customer Mark Bassett brings in a late 1800s Velocipede, sometimes called a railroad hand-car...
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    permitted to travel to and from work along the Padarn Railway using "velocipedes" – large, four-wheeled trucks propelled by foot ("car cicio" in Welsh...
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  • pushbike (informal) bicycle (predates the modern safety bicycle q.v. velocipede) (often used in contrast to a motor bike) pushchair forward-facing baby...
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    playing with nuts, playing with battledores, playing with balls, riding velocipedes, riding wooden horses, playing hide and seek and chasing each other....
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