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Wooden dandy horse (around 1820), a patent-infringing copy of the first two-wheeler Original Laufmaschine of 1817 made to measure.. The dandy horse, an English nickname for what was first called a Laufmaschine ("running machine" in German), then a vélocipède or draisienne (in French and then English), and then a pedestrian curricle or hobby-horse, [1] or swiftwalker, [2] is a human-powered ...
Reports of early forebears of the bicycle were velocipedes, and included many human-powered vehicles. One, the scooter-like dandy horse or celerifere of the French Comte de Sivrac, dating to 1790, was long cited as the earliest bicycle, however, most historians now believe these unsteerable hobby-horses probably never existed, but were made up ...
While so traveling one evening, he discovered a break in the track, and flagged down a night freight train, thus preventing a possible accident. [8] The railroad rewarded his efforts by bankrolling his invention. [8] George Sheffield obtained the patent for his device in 1879, calling it a "velocipede hand car."
He also invented two four-wheeled human powered vehicles (1813/1814), the second of which he presented in Vienna to the congress carving up Europe after Napoleon's defeat. [6] In 1842, he developed a foot-driven human powered railway vehicle whose name " draisine " is used even today for railway handcars.
J W Waldron's Smith & Bicycle Works in Brighton, England, ca.1900 The global bicycle market is $61 billion in 2011. [ 134 ] As of 2009 [update] , 130 million bicycles were sold every year globally and 66% of them were made in China.
Bartholemew William Barclay "Bat" Masterson (November 26, 1853 – October 25, 1921) was a U.S. Army scout, lawman, professional gambler, and journalist known for his exploits in the late 19th and early 20th-century American Old West.
William Wyatt Bibb (October 2, 1781 – July 10, 1820) was a United States Senator from Georgia, the first governor of the Alabama Territory, and the first Governor of the U.S. state of Alabama. Bibb was a member of the Democratic-Republican Party and served as governor of Alabama until his death on July 10, 1820, from a horse riding accident ...
On Alabama State Route 21, approx. 1.5 miles north of Talladega, Alabama Trooper: David E. Temple: 09-13-1979: Shot and killed while on a traffic stop with a car that was wanted in an earlier armed robbery: 36: On the side of Alabama State Route 20/U.S. Route 72 (Alternate)/I-565 in Mooresville, Alabama Trooper: Simmie L. Jeffries: 12-21-1984