[CR]Rim brakes since when?

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Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 17:52:59 +0200
From: "Martin Appel" <martin@camelot.de>
Organization: Camelot Online Services
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
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Subject: [CR]Rim brakes since when?

Hello List,

i'm only an infrequent reader so i hope this isn't a faq; couldn't find anything in the archive.

German Cycling magazine current issue has a feature about one of their writers trying to climb the "ballon d'alsace" on a bicycle from 1898. the bicycle is a "Permanenz" built in Germany, Dresden until 1905. it has one "block" brake where a ruber block ets pressed onto the front tire. Pictures from 1910 already show bikes equipped with rim brakes. Does anybody know when these got invented/first used on bicacles? who made them?

Martin Appel,
Munich, Germany