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See also:STARLEY, See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
JAMES (1830-1881) , See also:British inventor, the son of a See also:farmer, was baptized at Albourne, See also:Sussex, on the 13th of See also:June 183o. At eighteen he ran away from See also:home and started on See also:foot for See also:London, but on the way obtained See also:work as a gardener at See also:Lewisham, See also:Kent, where he lived for a number of. years. He had always been. an ingenious mechanic, inventing trifling novelties and repairing watches and clocks in the neighbourhood, and when sewing See also:machines began to be much used they attracted his See also:practical See also:attention, and aroused his inventive See also:genius. Leaving his See also:garden he went up to See also:Landon and became working mechanic for a See also:firm of sewing-See also:machine makers. Here he was in his See also:element, and in several particulars improved his See also:principal's machines, and invented a new one with an See also:arm See also:attachment that permitted circular as well, as straightforward work. With a See also:fellow workman he moved in 1857 to See also:Coventry, and started the manufacture of the " See also:European" and other sewing machines from his See also:patents. This was the beginning of the Coventry Machinists' See also:Company, the See also:pioneer of all the See also:great See also:bicycle and See also:tricycle See also:works which afterwards made that See also:city the centre of the See also:industry. Former acquaintances of Starley at Lewisham and elsewhere migrated to Coventry to become skilled See also:mechanics for this company. In 1868 they began the manufacture, after a See also:Paris See also:model and at first for See also:French use, of bicycles, several of the earliest suggested improvements being Starley's. A number of firms were soon devoting themselves exclusively to the manufacture of bicycles, and for one of these Starley—whose See also:financial successes were always for others—designed the Coventry tricycle. As it was harder to propel than the bicycle he invented the See also:balance See also:gear, and applied it in the Salvo, whichis the type of the See also:present tricycle .(q.v.). Starley died on the 17th of June 1881, and a public See also:monument has been erected to his memory in Coventry. His See also:nephew, J. K. Starley, patented the tangent wh-_el in 1874.
End of Article: STARLEY, JAMES (1830-1881)
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