The Mechanical Horse by Margaret Guroff PAPERBACK 9781477315873

The Mechanical Horse\nby Margaret Guroff\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Margaret Guroff\nTitle: The Mechanical Horse\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: History of the Americas\nPublisher: University of Texas Press\nISBN-13: 9781477315873\nISBN-10: 147731587X\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nWith cities across the country adding miles of bike lanes and building bike-share stations, bicycling is enjoying a new surge of popularity in America. It seems that every generation or two, Americans rediscover the freedom of movement, convenience, and relative affordability of the bicycle. The earliest two-wheeler, the draisine, arrived in Philadelphia in 1819 and astonished onlookers with the possibility of propelling themselves \u201Clike lightning.\u201D Two centuries later, the bi.