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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 ...
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.)
Drais invented his Laufmaschine (German for "running machine") in 1817, that was called Draisine (English) or draisienne (French) by the press. Karl von Drais patented this design in 1818, which was the first commercially successful two-wheeled, steerable, human-propelled machine, commonly called a velocipede , and nicknamed hobby-horse or ...
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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.
An 1880 penny-farthing (left), and a 1886 Rover safety bicycle (right). The first bicycle to be called a "safety" was designed by the English engineer Harry John Lawson (Henry Lawson) in 1876, [6] although other bicycles which fit the description had been developed earlier, such as by Thomas Humber in 1868. [7]
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New dashcam video shows the moment escaped prison inmate Casey White was captured in Indiana after police dragged him from a Cadillac that wrecked in a car chase. Dramatic dash cam video shows ...