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 See also:

• JAMES STARLEY (1830-1881)

STARLEY (1830-1881)  , See also:

• BRITISH

British inventor, the son of a See also:

• FARMER, RICHARD (1735–1787)

farmer, was baptized at Albourne, See also:

• SUSSEX
• SUSSEX, EARLS OF
• SUSSEX, KINGDOM OF (SO Seaxe, i.e. the South Saxons)
• SUSSEX, THOMAS RADCLYFFE [or RATCLYFFE], 3RD EARL OF (c. 1525-1583)

Sussex, on the 13th of See also:

• JUNE

June 183o . At eighteen he ran away from See also:

• HOME
• HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (1833-1886)
• HOME, EARLS OF

home and started on See also:

• FOOT

foot for See also:

• LONDON

London, but on the way obtained See also:

• WORK

work as a gardener at See also:

• LEWISHAM

Lewisham, See also:

• KENT
• KENT, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• KENT, JAMES (1763-1847)
• KENT, WILLIAM (1685-1748)

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

machines began to be much used they attracted his See also:

• PRACTICAL

practical See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention, and aroused his inventive See also:

• GENIUS (from Lat. genere, gignere)

genius . Leaving his See also:

• GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

garden he went up to See also:

• LANDON, CHARLES PAUL (1760-1826)
• LANDON, LETITIA ELIZABETH (18o2-1838)

Landon and became working mechanic for a See also:

• FIRM

firm of sewing-See also:

• MACHINE
• MACHINE (through Fr. from Lat. form machina of Gr. µnxavil)

machine makers . Here he was in his See also:

• ELEMENT (Lat. elementum)

element, and in several particulars improved his See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal's machines, and invented a new one with an See also:

• ARM (a common Teutonic word; the Indo-European root is ar, to join or fit; cf. the Lat. armus, shoulder, and the plural word arma, weapons, Gr. apphs, joint, and the reduplicated apapilKSV, to join)

arm See also:

• ATTACHMENT

attachment that permitted circular as well, as straightforward work . With a See also:

• FELLOW

fellow workman he moved in 1857 to See also:

• COVENTRY, SIR JOHN (d. 1682)
• COVENTRY, SIR WILLIAM (c. 1628-1686)
• COVENTRY, THOMAS COVENTRY, 1ST BARON (2578–1640)

Coventry, and started the manufacture of the " See also:

• EUROPEAN

European" and other sewing machines from his See also:

• PATENTS

patents . This was the beginning of the Coventry Machinists' See also:

• COMPANY

Company, the See also:

• PIONEER

pioneer of all the See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• BICYCLE (from prefix bi = twice, and Gr. KuKXOr, a circle, wheel)

bicycle and See also:

• TRICYCLE (from prefix tri, three, and Gr. 1cbaos, circle, wheel)

tricycle See also:

• WORKS

works which afterwards made that See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city the centre of the See also:

• INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry . Former acquaintances of See also:

• STARLEY, JAMES (1830-1881)

Starley at Lewisham and elsewhere migrated to Coventry to become skilled See also:

• MECHANICS

mechanics for this company . In 1868 they began the manufacture, after a See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris See also:

• MODEL (0. Fr. modelle, mod. modele; It. modello, pattern, mould; from Lat. modus, measure, standard)

model and at first for See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

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

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 (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. bilantia, an apparatus for weighing, from bi, two, and lanx, a dish or scale)

balance See also:

• GEAR (connected with " garb," properly elegance, fashion, especially of dress, and with " gar," to cause to do, only found in Scottish and northern dialects; the root of the word is seen in the Old Tent. garwjan, to make ready)

gear, and applied it in the Salvo, whichis the type of the See also:

• PRESENT

present tricycle .(q.v.) . Starley died on the 17th of June 1881, and a public See also:

• MONUMENT (Lat. monumentum or monumentum; from monere, to advise, bring to mind, remind; the German equivalent is Denkmal)

monument has been erected to his memory in Coventry .

His See also:

• NEPHEW

nephew, J . K . Starley, patented the tangent wh-_el in 1874 .