Saturday, March 14, 2009

Bicycle built for...Steam















One of the more fascinating items on display at the Oklahoma City Museum of Science was a steam-powered bicycle built in 1885 by inventor Lucius Day Copeland in Phoenix, Arizona. Beginning with this augmentation of his Star high wheel safety bicycle, he went on to become a steam-power pioneer - designing a number of similar bicycles before graduating to automobiles.

No comments:

Post a Comment