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    James Starley (21 April 1830 – 17 June 1881) was an English inventor and father of the bicycle industry. He was one of the most innovative and successful...
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  • Starley may refer to: Starley (singer) (born 1987), Australian singer James Starley (1830–1881), English inventor and father of the bicycle industry John...
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    fashioned the wire-spoke tension wheel. Around 1870 English inventor James Starley, described as the father of the bicycle industry, and others, began...
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    John Kemp Starley (24 December 1855 – 29 October 1901) was an English inventor and industrialist who is widely considered the inventor of the modern safety...
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    the city, as was the inventor James Starley, instrumental in the development of the bicycle and his nephew J.K. Starley, who worked alongside his uncle...
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    place of James Starley. Meyer invented the wire-spoke tension wheel in 1869 and produced a classic high bicycle design until the 1880s. James Starley in Coventry...
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    William Sutton in 1878. Starley had previously worked with his uncle, James Starley (father of the cycle trade), who began by manufacturing sewing machines...
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    steer via the front wheel remained a problem. Englishman J.K. Starley (nephew of James Starley), J.H. Lawson, and Shergold solved this problem by introducing...
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    fitted with their patent differential gear on the rear axle. 1876: James Starley of Coventry invents chain-drive differential for use on bicycles; invention...
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  • continued to be used under Chrysler until 1976. In 1857 Josiah Turner and James Starley formed the Coventry Sewing Machine Company, and recruited skilled engineers...
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    by aeronautical engineer George Cayley and first used in bicycles by James Starley. A process of assembling wire wheels is described as wheelbuilding....
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  • penny-farthing bicycles and sewing machines. In 1885 James Starley's nephew, John Kemp Starley, invented the Rover Safety Bicycle - a bicycle with similarly...
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    England. James Starley, a foreman at Coventry, began to make improvements and in 1885, the Starley Rover, a safety bicycle manufactured by Starley's nephew...
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    the recently developed rechargeable battery, fitted it to an English James Starley tricycle, so inventing the world's first electric vehicle. Although...
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    his approach to designing tricycles.[clarification needed] In 1876, James Starley developed the Coventry Lever Tricycle, which used two small wheels on...
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    from the original on 3 August 2008. Retrieved 2008-08-15. Founded by James Starley and William Hillman in 1870 to make bicycles and the first patented...
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    Coventry, England from 1900 until 1931. It grew progressively from James Starley's Coventry Sewing Machine Company, via bicycle and motorised cycle manufacture...
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    Sidney Horstmann Steam fire engine – John Braithwaite Penny-farthing – James Starley Dynasphere – John Archibald Purves Caterpillar track – Richard Lovell...
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    novelist, critic and poet George Eliot; the father of the bicycle industry James Starley (building demolished in early 2020); former MP for Coventry East and...
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    most commonly known for his work in the consumer electronics sector James Starley (1831–1881), bicycle pioneer George Stephenson (1781–1848), engineer...
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    Cutler's Brook. English inventor and father of the bicycle industry, James Starley (1830–1881), was born in Albourne. The village has a golf course, a...
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    pedals until the 1860s). Tricycles were not popular until 1876, when James Starley introduced the Coventry Lever Tricycle, a side-driven two-track, lever-driven...
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  • (1828–1886). c. 1870: "Ariel", a penny-farthing bicycle, developed by James Starley (1831–1881). 1876: The legal collection of 70,000 seeds from the rubber-bearing...
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  • (1st ed.). Southgate, Mich.: Bookshelf Publishers. ISBN 9780963450920. "James Starley | British inventor | Britannica". www.britannica.com. "Enterprising...
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    established in 1861 by James Starley. The company produced several successful models of sewing machine, and in 1868, Starley and his company were persuaded...
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    building and exporting copies of the Ariel model with the permission of James Starley and William Hillman. The Ariel-design featured a system of spokes that...
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    the recently developed rechargeable battery, fitted it to an English James Starley tricycle, inventing the world's first electric vehicle. Although this...
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    directors: Thomas Humber William Starley of Starley Brothers and Westwood Manufacturing Limited (son of James Starley) Col. C J Hill of the Coventry Machinists'...
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    other was the monument to the nineteenth century bicycle entrepreneur James Starley, which was taken from Greyfriars Green and put into storage, then relocated...
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  • "Call on Me" (Janet Jackson song), featuring Nelly, 2006 "Call on Me" (Starley song), 2016 "Call on Me" (Tanya Tucker song), 1989 "Call on Me", by 1927...
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