john kemp starley造句

• In 1885 John Kemp Starley exhibited his Rover Safety bicycle at the Stanley show.
• By 1886-1887, new safety bicycles, introduced by John Kemp Starley, were becoming popular in England.
• Starley's sons continued manufacturing cycles after his death in 1881 but his nephew John Kemp Starley made more of a mark.
• Their son, William Starley, and his nephew, John Kemp Starley, also entered the industry and one of the outcomes was the car company.
• John Kemp Starley experimented with an electric tri-car around 1888 but the petrol-driven Rover 8hp car was sold in 1904, two years after his death.
• John Kemp Starley, James's nephew, produced the first successful " safety bicycle " ( again a retrospective name ), the " Rover, " in 1885, which he never patented.
• James Starley, a foreman at Coventry, began to make improvements and in 1885, the Starley " Rover ", a " safety bicycle " manufactured by Starley's nephew, John Kemp Starley, was the first recognisably modern bicycle.
• It was John Kemp Starley and Sutton who devised the recognisably modern Rover safety bicycle with 26-inch wheels ( still a standard size ), chain drive, and a diamond-shaped frame ( no seat-tube as yet ) in 1884, showing it in 1885.