ICHC-Program 2018

The program of the 29th (2018) ICHC that will be held in Guildhall in The City of London. You will receive a printed copy when you register at the Conference, but having this lo. res. copy now may give you a better idea of how this Conference is shaping up.

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8.30 Opening of the conference, Welcome and Daily Notes Philip Saunders (UK), 29th ICHC Chairman

8:45 Opening words: Cycle History is Important Sharon Ament, Director, Museum of London (UK)

9:00 May Your Strides Ever Be Long Ones Whence cometh the interest in hobby-horses, and why did the interest in these machines last so long? Roger Street (UK)

9:30 The Mysterious Rappa Rappa is the brand name for a 4-speed bottom bracket gearbox for bicycles. This is the story of the gearbox and how it came to be. Endre Varsa (Hungary); presented by Tony Hadland (UK)

10:00 Reflexions on Three Decades of the ICHC Time inevitably brings change and eventually the end. So how has the ICHC fared in its journey through time? Nick Clayton (UK)

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00 The First Bicycle Built in Spain (in Huisea in 1867) All about the first bicycle built in Spain and the first historic rides taken on it. Angel Giner (Spain)

11:30 From Muscle on Wheels to Beauty on Wheels: Women’s High-Wheel Bicycle Racing in Nineteenth-Century America Show business or true sport? Spectators were mostly men interested in watching and gambiling. Anne Hall (Canada)

12:00 Two Czech Tricycles from 1832(?) and 1891 Two Czech tricycles residing in the Technical Museum in Prague are examined in detail. Jan Králîk (Czeck Republic)

12:30 Lunch break

13:30 Richard Weber’s Role in the Development of Electrical Lighting with Dynamos for Bicycles Richard Weber, in Germany, was the first to patent an electric light for bicycles that was powered by a dynamo, but ten years of effort proved that the patented system could not work for reasons to be explained. By Gerd Boettcher and Three Others: to be presented by Heinrich Bueltmann-Hagedorn (Germany)

14:00 Healthy and Sustainable Travel Studying past experience leads to understanding how to make cycling safer. Nick Lloyd (UK)

14:30 Bicycle Messenger Boys and the Evolution of American Labor Laws Exploitation of working boys on bikes has led to protective laws with ramifications for some of today’s new situations. Chris Sweet (USA)

15:00 An Early History of the Hobby-Horse and Cranked Bicycles in the Australian Colonies, 1831-1869: Attempting to Rewrite the History of Cranked Bicycles Hobby-horses were in the Australian colonies by the 1830s, and evidence indicates that cranked bicycles existed here prior to 1846. Marc Rerceretnam (Australia)

15:30 Tea Break

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