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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 ...
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.
Name City County State/ Province Established Summary Ref All Cowboy & Arena Champions Hall of Fame 2016 The All Cowboys & Arena Champions Hall of Fame is an internet-based hall of fame for the purpose of recognizing top individuals in the rodeo and arena-related world who were top hands but, for whatever reason, chose to compete only at state or regional basis.
Established in 1946 through the philanthropy of Linda (1859–1938) and Herbert F. Hall (1858–1941), of the Hall-Bartlett Grain Co., [3] the library is open to the public, and invites individual researchers, academic institutions, and companies from Kansas City and around the world to use the library's research-level collection.
General George B. McClellan, by Henry Jackson Ellicott, Philadelphia City Hall, 1894. Washington Monument, by Rudolf Siemering, Eakins Oval, 1897. General Ulysses S. Grant, by Daniel Chester French (Grant) and Edward Clark Potter (horse), Fairmount Park, 1897. The Medicine Man, by Cyrus Dallin, Fairmount Park, 1899.
In 1888 the two-person tandem bicycle was invented. Velocipede was an early term for any kind of carriage driven by the feet, and the term encompassed bicycles and tricycles and the dandy-horse. The term velocipede was first used in France around the end of the 18th century.
15-mile Penny Farthing Race, Harvard University Cycling Association in 1887 A penny-farthing in the Škoda Auto Museum, Czech Republic. The penny-farthing, also known as a high wheel, high wheeler or ordinary, is an early type of bicycle. [1]
An American blacksmith named Albert Tolman is said to have invented the rickshaw, or "man drawn lorry" in 1846 in Worcester, Massachusetts, for a South American bound missionary. [17] In New Jersey, the Burlington County Historical Society claims an 1867 invention by carriage maker James Birch, and exhibits a Birch rickshaw in its museum. [18]