Salt Lake Herald | 1890-10-18 | Page 1 | Bicycle Traveling

BICYCLE TRAVELING An Invention to Run the Machines by Elec tricity About to be Patented Special THE HERALD Examiner Dispatch CHICAGO Oat 17The possibilities of bicycle traveling are in a fair way to be given a still greater development if the theories of John P Atkinson a New York electrician who was in Chicago today cancan can-can be reduced to a prastical shape Said he My purpose which by the way other inventors are trying likewise to materialize is to propel the bicycle by electricity The machinery is simple enough The chief and thus far unsolved problem is the construction of a storage battery that will be large enough to propel the bicycle and at the same time compact enough to be carried on it Experiments are being constantly made however and I expect myself to be able before long to patent an invention that will send a wheel along at a speed of ten miles an hour with a battery largo enough to work ten hours i without recharging The active properties prop-erties can be carried by the bicycler and with a little water he will be able to recharge re-charge the battery whenever necessary