History of the bicycle fashion of the day made the "ordinary" bicycle inaccessible. Queen Victoria owned Starley's "Royal Salvo" tricycle, though there is no evidence she actually rode it. Although French and English inventors modified the velocipede into the high-wheel bicycle, the French were still recovering from the Franco-Prussian war, so English entrepreneurs put the high-wheeler on the English market, and the machine became very popular there, Coventry, Oxford, Birmingham and Manchester being the centers of the English bicycle industry (and of the arms or sewing machine industries, which had the necessary metalworking and engineering skills for bicycle manufacturing, as in Paris and St.
Eugene A. Clifford Eugene A. Clifford Eugene A. Clifford (December 5, 1886 - 1941) was an American lawyer from Juneau, Wisconsin who served one term as a Democratic member of the Wisconsin State Senate from the 13th District. Clifford was born December 5, 1886, in the town of Clyman, in Dodge County, Wisconsin. He attended Juneau's high school, Dodgeland High School, and the University of Wisconsin Law School; and took up the practice of law in Juneau. He spent fifteen years as city attorney of Juneau, as well as four years as mayor. He was a county supervisor for four years, and as