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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.)
A dandy horse (built c. 1820) Balance bikes descend from the earliest two-wheeled bicycle, a Laufmaschine or dandy horse, invented by Karl Drais in 1817. [4] These early balance bikes consisted of a simple wooden frame with two wheels and no pedals, and were designed for adult use. [5] [6]
Location of Roane County in Tennessee. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Roane County, Tennessee.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and historic districts in Roane County, Tennessee, United States, that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Pages in category "Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. people" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Lallement left France in July 1865 for the United States, settling in Ansonia, Connecticut, where he built and demonstrated an improved version of his bicycle.With James Carroll of New Haven as his financer, he filed the earliest and only American patent application for the pedal-bicycle in April 1866, and the patent was awarded on November 20, 1866. [5]
George Lewis Gillespie, Jr. (1841–1913), U.S. Army general and Medal of Honor recipient; Jennie Jackson (1852–1910), one of the original Fisk Jubilee Singers; Martin W. Littleton (1872–1934), U.S. congressman and attorney, known for defending Harry Thaw at his murder trial; Sam Rayburn (1882–1961), U.S. congressman and Speaker of the House
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