Smartly dressed couple seated on an 1886 model quadricycle for two. The South Portico of the White House, Washington, D.C., in the background.
Quadricycle
The decades of the 1820s-1850s witnessed many inventions concerning human powered vehicles also called velocipedes. The idea of a workable two wheel design, requiring the rider to balance, had been dismissed, as these new machines were all tricycles or quadricycles.
Smartly dressed couple seated on an 1886 model quadricycle for two. The South Portico of the White House, Washington, D.C., in the background.
Smartly dressed couple seated on an 1886 model quadricycle for two. The South Portico of the White House, Washington, D.C., in the background.
