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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 ...
Cedar Rapids: 83: Odd Fellows Hall: Odd Fellows Hall: October 10, 1985 : Troy Mills Rd. Troy Mills: 84: Our Mother of Sorrows Grotto Historic District: Our Mother of Sorrows Grotto Historic District: January 21, 2015 : 1330 Elmhurst Dr., NE.
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.
The Odd Fellows Home of Dell Rapids, also known as the I.O.O.F. Home, is a historic Independent Order of Odd Fellows lodge and former orphanage in Dell Rapids, South Dakota. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012, with four contributing resources: the main building, a power plant, the front gate, and an apple orchard. [2]
Park Rapids Area High School, at 401 Huntsinger Avenue, serves grades 9–12. [29] Century School, at 501 Helten Avenue, houses grades K–8. [30] Park Rapids had two separate buildings for primary school that split up K–3 and 9–12 from grades 4-8. Frank White Elementary and Park Rapids High School were part of the same building.
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.
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]
The Grant Wood Cultural District is a historic district in downtown Cedar Rapids, Iowa that was certified in 2010 by the Iowa State Historical Society. [1]It includes Grant Wood's studio, the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, the Veterans Memorial Building, the U.S. Cellular Center, and numerous other points of interest.