Object Details Description This French-patterned velocipede was donated to the museum in 1907. The donor of this machine stated that it was made by either Sargent or French, carriage builders of ...

This velocipede was made a hundred years later as a replica for Buster Keaton to use in Our Hospitality, a silent comedy film he starred in and directed. The film, loosely based on the legendary ...

Mr Coltman earned the title of England's fattest man on 21 June 1809 when Daniel Lambert, a 52st prison warden from Leicester, died at the age of 39 in the Waggon and Horses Inn at Stamford, in ...

Edward Coltman, who was vicar of Beverley Minster, used a strengthened velocipede, a walking bicycle, to get around and needed a team of vergers to propel his huge body up into the pulpit when it ...

A painting depicting a vicar said to have been the fattest man in England has sold at auction for £1,400. The Reverend Joseph Coltman weighed 43st (273kg) at his heaviest, according to York-based ...

Some time 'since the attention of scientific men, and especially of naturalists, was directed to a couple of very extraordinary elephants imported from Sumatra. One of these - creatures, although ...

Even to date, this steering helps vehicles to corner better: The first large-scale production car (1200 units were sold between 1894 and 1901) was called the Motor Velocipede: Daimler Reimenwagen: 150 ...

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