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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 ...
Karl Freiherr von Drais (full name: Karl Friedrich Christian Ludwig Freiherr Drais von Sauerbronn; 29 April 1785 – 10 December 1851) was a noble German forest official and significant inventor in the Biedermeier period. He is regarded as "the father" and as the inventor of the bicycle. [1]
Running can assist people in losing weight, staying in shape and improving body composition. Research suggests that the person of average weight will burn approximately 100 calories per mile run. [61] Running increases one's metabolism, even after running; one will continue to burn an increased level of calories for a short time after the run. [62]
Different varieties of running were practiced such as running whilst carrying halteres, in armour, [13] in heavy sand, incorporating jumps along the way , running whilst turning a large ring along the ground by their side with a stick, and running whilst carrying a large metal tripod, running in a decreasing or increasing circle, [14] whilst ...
Joseph Bramah (13 April 1748 [1] – 9 December 1814) was an English inventor and locksmith. He is best known for having improved the flush toilet and inventing the hydraulic press . Along with William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong , he can be considered one of the two fathers of hydraulic engineering.
Two-person rail-cycle draisine with four wheels, for leisure. A draisine (English: / d r eɪ ˈ z iː n /) is a light auxiliary rail vehicle, driven by service personnel, equipped to transport crew and material necessary for the maintenance of railway infrastructure.
April 13 – Joseph Bramah, English inventor (died 1814) May 10 – Louis Pierre Vieillot, French ornithologist (died 1830) June 30 – Dominique, comte de Cassini, French astronomer (died 1845) August 8 – Johann Friedrich Gmelin, German naturalist (died 1804) December 9 – Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist (died 1822)
1748 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1748th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 748th year of the 2nd millennium, the 48th year of the 18th century, and the 9th year of the 1740s decade. As of the start of 1748, the ...