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Although Johnson referred to his machine as a ‘pedestrian curricle’, it was formally referred to as a ‘velocipede’, and popularly as a ‘Hobby-horse’, ‘Dandy-horse’, ‘Pedestrian's accelerator’, ‘Swift walker’ and by a variety of other names. Johnson made at least 320 velocipedes in the early part of 1819. He also opened ...
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 ...
Beeston 2008, with insignia high on the left front wall. Humber was an English brand of bicycles and tricycles.Thomas Humber made himself a velocipede in 1868. From that time he built a substantial business in manufacturing tricycles and bicycles while continuously improving their design and construction.
The concept was picked up by a number of British cartwrights; the most notable was Denis Johnson of London announcing in late 1818 that he would sell an improved model. [23] Johnson called his machine as a pedestrian curricle or velocipede, but the public preferred nicknames like "hobby-horse," after the children's toy or, worse still, "Dandy ...
[1] [2] [7] [8] Perreaux continued development of his steam cycle, and exhibited a tricycle version by 1884. [9] The only Michaux-Perreaux steam velocipede made, on loan from the Musée de l'Île-de-France, Sceaux , was the first machine viewers saw upon entering the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum rotunda in The Art of the Motorcycle exhibition ...
Drais was a prolific inventor, who invented the Laufmaschine ("running machine"), [2] also later called the velocipede, draisine or draisienne , also nicknamed the hobby horse or dandy horse. This was his most popular and widely recognized invention.
The dictionary definition of velocipede at Wiktionary; Media related to History of the bicycle at Wikimedia Commons; 19th century picture of a Velocipede supposedly outrunning a horse Archived 2011-07-28 at the Wayback Machine; Musée McCord Museum Gallery "A Race on the Ice – Bicycles v. Skates" The Boneshaker. Retrieved 28 June 2010.
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