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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.)
Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet. Known for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech, [2] Frost frequently wrote about settings from rural life in New England in the early 20th century, using them to examine complex social and philosophical themes.
The Texas Book Festival returns in full force for 2022 this weekend in and around the Capitol.
Dark Horse Comics superhero imprint. Changed name to Dark Horse Heroes in 1995 Comics Interview Group: US 1985 1989 [citation needed] Imprint of Fictioneer Books: ComicsOne: US [124] 1999 2005 [125] Some titles were taken over by DrMaster [126] Com.x: UK 2000 [citation needed] Conrad: Brazil [127] 1993 [citation needed] Continuity Comics: US ...
“Horse” intersperses the tale of Lexington’s racing and breeding career with the modern-day story of a Ph.D. student who finds the discarded painting of a horse, and then meets a Smithsonian ...
BookPeople is an independent bookstore in Austin, Texas, and the largest bookstore in the state of Texas. [1] It was founded in 1970 and has been voted the best bookstore by the Austin Chronicle every year since 1995 as of 2010. [2] BookPeople was voted Publishers Weekly's "Best Bookstore in the US 2005". [3]
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.