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  2. Hobby horse - Wikipedia

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    From the term "hobby horse" came the expression "to ride one's hobby-horse", meaning "to follow a favourite pastime", and in turn, the modern sense of the term hobby. [58] The term is also connected to the draisine, a forerunner of the bicycle, invented by Baron Karl von Drais. In 1818, a London coach-maker named Denis Johnson began producing ...

  3. The Hobby Horse - Wikipedia

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    The magazine was titled The Century Guild Hobby Horse during its publication from 1884 to 1892, but in its final years in 1893 and 1894 it was simply The Hobby Horse. The Hobby Horse served as a way of sharing the views of the Guild and promoted crafted art as opposed to mechanical industry. The Century Guild disbanded once members Arthur ...

  4. Hobby horse (toy) - Wikipedia

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    William Wallace Denslow's illustrations for a variant of Ride a cock horse, from a 1901 edition of Mother Goose. A hobby horse (or hobby-horse) is a child's toy horse. Children played at riding a wooden hobby horse made of a straight stick with a small horse's head (of wood or stuffed fabric), and perhaps reins, attached to one end.

  5. Karl Drais - Wikipedia

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    Karl von Drais on his original Laufmaschine, the earliest two-wheeler, or hobbyhorse in 1819 A Draisine from around 1820, built with cherry wood and softwood. Displayed at the Kurpfälzisches Museum in Heidelberg, Germany.

  6. Draisine - Wikipedia

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    It is the first reliable claim for a practically used precursor to the bicycle, basically the first commercially successful two-wheeled, steerable, human-propelled machine, nicknamed hobby-horse or dandy horse. [1] Drais's dandy horse, called Draisine in German, whose name was inherited by the rail vehicle. (drawing published in 1817.)

  7. Model horse - Wikipedia

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    In the 1970s, US model horse collectors decided that their horses should be doing something else than just sitting on a shelf. They began to seek each other out, and early model horse magazines such as Breyer's Just About Horses and Model Horse Showers Journal were the means for collectors to socialize. Realism became the goal and the hobby ...

  8. Breyer Animal Creations - Wikipedia

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    Vintage Breyer horses, c. 1972. Breyer Animal Creations (commonly referred to as simply Breyer) is primarily a manufacturer of model horses.Founded in 1950, the company, now a division of Reeves International, Inc, [1] specializes in model horses made from cellulose acetate, a form of plastic, and produces other animal models from the same material as well.

  9. Radio Flyer - Wikipedia

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    Radio Flyer wagon, tricycle and hobby horse circa 1960. The Liberty Coaster Company began producing the wooden bodied "No. 4 Liberty Coaster" in 1923. [12] In 1927, Pasin replaced the wooden body with stamped steel, taking advantage of assembly line manufacturing techniques and earning him the nickname "Little Ford".

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