🚲 Weird bicycle (advert) history - 'Voltaic Belts' for 'Nervous, Debilitated men'

The Wheel magazine, Feb 1886.
cyclearchive.com/magazines/the

Found the patent for this, which doesn't give much away, but nevertheless intriguing patents.google.com/patent/US17

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@alastairmrushworth all bikes are e-bikes; some of them just use nerves instead of wires

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