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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 ...
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Robert F. Hall Catholic Secondary School (frequently referred to as Hall or abbreviated as RFH) is a Catholic school located in Caledon East, Ontario, Canada.The school was named after Robert Francis (Bobby Soxer) Hall (1925–1989), the first lay person after whom a Catholic secondary school has been named in the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board.
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.
Facebook discusses with Yahoo! about the latter possibly acquiring the former, for $1 billion. [259] 2007: January 10: Product: Facebook launches m.facebook.com and officially announces mobile support. [321] 2007: May 24: Product: Facebook announces Facebook Platform for developers to build applications on top of Facebook's social graph. [322 ...
The construction of the boneshaker was similar to the dandy horse: wooden wheels with iron tires and a framework of wrought iron. As the name implies it was extremely uncomfortable, but the discomfort was somewhat ameliorated by a long flat spring that supported the saddle and absorbed some of the shocks from rough road surfaces.
Dodge was born in Niles, Michigan, where his father ran a foundry and machine shop.John and his younger brother, Horace, were inseparable as children and as adults.The origins of the Dodge family was earlier thought to lie in Stockport, England, where a Dodge ancestral home still stands (Halliday Hill Farmhouse in Listed buildings in Stockport), however recent DNA testing conducted by the ...
Caledon (/ ˈ k æ l ə d ə n /; 2021 population 76,581) is a town in the Regional Municipality of Peel in the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario, Canada.The name comes from a shortened form of Caledonia, the Roman name for what is now Scotland. [6]