Object Details
- Description
- This cycle was built by the H. B. Smith Machine Company, of Smithville, New Jersey. It bears the serial number 1200, and patent dates of 1880 and 1884. It was donated to the Smithsonian in 1908. According to the donor, this machine was given to his father, Benjamin F. Wilkins, around 1900. Mr. Wilkins, a member of the Capitol Bicycle Club of Washington, D.C., never rode it, as it was considered a relic when he acquired it.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- ca 1884
- Credit Line
- Gift of Thomas M. Wilkins
- Object Name
- Bicycle, Ordinary
- Other Terms
- Bicycle, Ordinary; Road
