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Thomas Stevens (24 December 1854 [1] [2] – 24 January 1935) was the first person to circle the globe by bicycle. He rode a large-wheeled Ordinary, also known as a penny-farthing , from April 1884 to December 1886. [ 3 ]
They were often quite durable and required little service. For example, when cyclist Thomas Stevens rode around the world in the 1880s, he reported only one significant mechanical problem in over 20,000 kilometres (12,000 miles), caused when the local military confiscated his bicycle and damaged the front wheel.
In 1887 Thomas Stevens had become the first person to bicycle around the world. [2] Moreover, the bicycle craze of the 1890s was providing women with an independent method of transportation and fomenting an evolution in women's clothing , from full skirts and heavy material to bloomers that allow for more mobility and freedom of movement .
Princess Malekeh-Afagh Khanom, around 1900 by Antoin Sevruguin. Thomas Stevens 1887 told in his travel-diary Around the World on a Bicycle: "Prince Anushirvan Mirza, Governor of Semnan, Damghan, and Shahrood, is the Shah's cousin, son of Baahman Mirza, uncle of the Shah, and formerly Governor of Tabreez.
Thomas Stevens (cyclist) (1854–1935), first man to cycle around the world Thomas Stephens (American football) (1935–2018), professional American football player Thomas Stephens (boxer) (born 1969), Liberian Olympic boxer
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