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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 ...
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 Sarasota County in Florida. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Sarasota County, Florida. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Sarasota County, Florida, United States. The locations of National Register properties and ...
The term was probably first coined by Karl von Drais in French as vélocipède for the French translation of his advertising leaflet for his version of the Laufmaschine, also now called a 'dandy horse', which he had developed in 1817. It is ultimately derived from the Latin velox, veloc-'swift' + pes, ped-'foot'. [1]
In the early 1860s the first true bicycle was created in Paris, France, by attaching rotary cranks and pedals to the front wheel hub of a dandy-horse. The Olivier brothers recognized the commercial potential of this invention, and set up a partnership with blacksmith and bicycle maker Pierre Michaux, using Michaux's name, already famous among enthusiasts of the new sport, for the company.
Claude Shannon (1916–2016), founder of information theory and modern cryptography, invented Minivac 601, and co-invented the first wearable computer (with Edward O. Thorp) Ugo Cerletti (1877–1963), together with Lucio Bini (1908–1964), Italy – Electroconvulsive therapy; Leona Chalmers (c. 1937), U.S. – modern menstrual cup
Dandy Horse Around 1840 a man called Kirkpatrick MacMilllan, a blacksmith, arrived in Glasgow from Dumfriesshire by his "bicycle", also known as the Dandy Horse. This was the first modern bike we know..with pedals, so he could ride without putting his feet on the ground : a perfect invention as a personal, clean, selfpropelled means of ...
William Henry Whitaker (c. 1821–1888) was an American Seminole War veteran and pioneer who, under the provisions of the Armed Occupation Act, established the first permanent settlement in what is now Sarasota, Florida.