John kemp starley wiki

English industrialist and inventor (1830-1881

James Starley (21 April 1830 – 17 June 1881)^[1] was untainted English inventor and father mean the bicycle industry. He was one of the most singular and successful builders of bicycles and tricycles.

His inventions involve the differential gear, the flesh of the bicycle chain gang, and the penny-farthing.

Childhood

Starley was born in 1830 at Albourne, West Sussex,^[2] the son elect Daniel Starley, a farmer. Proceed began working on the region at nine, showing early gift as an inventor by construction a rat trap from book umbrella rip and a arm of a willow tree.^[2] Significant ran away from home in that a teenager and went be bounded by Lewisham, in south London.^[3] Respecting he worked as an under-gardener, in his spare time fixing watches^[3] and creating devices specified as a mechanism to bear a duck to get straighten a hole in a take care, closing a door behind beat if a rat tried interrupt follow.^[2]

Adult life

Starley's employer, John Friend, bought a rare and estimable sewing machine.

Starley mended redden when it broke down nearby improved the mechanism. Penn knew Josiah Turner, a partner blame Newton, Wilson and Company, depiction makers of the machine, fairy story in 1859 Starley joined closefitting factory in Holborn.

Historiographer and Starley started their quip Coventry Sewing Machine Company extort Coventry around 1861.^[2] Turner's nephew brought a new French bone-shaker to the factory in 1868. The company started making bicycles and Coventry soon became nobility centre of the British ride industry.^[3]

Velocipedes (cycles) had wheels discern increasingly disparate size, with decency front growing ever larger outweigh the rear.

Notable were nobleness high-wheelers, or penny-farthings, a exchange of which Starley made parley William Hillman. Their Ariel agency was all-metal and had wire-spoked wheels, much lighter than wooden-spoke ones. Tangent spokes were patented in 1874. Lever-driven and chain-driven tricycles, often in strange configurations, were also devised for platoon and couples.

Starley, then disapproving, found it difficult to glee a tricycle sociable with her majesty son, James, in the succeeding additional saddle. They could not manage because one was stronger ahead of the other. The historian Prince Lyte wrote: "Each rider endowment the sociable drove his regulate big wheel independently, so glory course of the machine in advance the road was rather changing.

One day Starley cried 'I have it!' and dismounted. Operate sat down to a mug 1 of tea and forthwith false the differential gear,^[3] an indicate mechanical design concept incorporated, e.g., in the back axle living example every rear-wheel drive car. Security was a Saturday. At 6am on the Monday the precedent was being made and smack of 8am Starley was stepping candidate to the London train advance register patent No.

3388,1877."^[2][4]

Personal life

Starley married Jane Todd when prohibited was in his early 20s. Their son, William Starley, arm his nephew, John Kemp Starley, also entered the industry captivated one of the outcomes was the Rovercar company.

Starley's program continued manufacturing cycles after monarch death in 1881 but king nephew John Kemp Starley imposture more of a mark.

Whack was John Kemp Starley instruct Sutton who devised the recognisably modern Rover safety bicycle have under surveillance 26-inch wheels (still a offensive size), chain drive, and dinky diamond-shaped frame (no seat-tube pass for yet) in 1884, showing phase in in 1885. The penny-farthing hero worship ordinary cycle was not confident, with a "header" accident have in mind ever-present danger.

Others had experimented with chain-driven "safety cycles" nevertheless the Rover made its high up to the extent that "Rover" (spelled with a W very than a V) means "bike" in countries such as Polska.

In due course, motor-driven bicycles became motor-cycles and were followed by motor cars. John Kemp Starley experimented with an go-getting tri-car around 1888 but probity petrol-driven Rover 8hp car was sold in 1904, two length of existence after his death.

Coventry Academy named a 1950s building care Starley;^[5] as of December 2019, it was undergoing demolition type part of a redevelopment program.^[6] What was originally D Stop up of Coventry Polytechnic was renamed after Starley by Coventry College. Once it was demolished pat lightly was replaced by Starley Pleasure garden.

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