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The dictionary definition of velocipede at Wiktionary; Media related to History of the bicycle at Wikimedia Commons; 19th century picture of a Velocipede supposedly outrunning a horse Archived 2011-07-28 at the Wayback Machine; Musée McCord Museum Gallery "A Race on the Ice – Bicycles v. Skates" The Boneshaker. Retrieved 28 June 2010.
Although Eastland itself was a single-story mall, all three of its original anchor stores were constructed with two stories of retail space. The Sears store closed off its upper level at some point during the 1980s. With the closure and subsequent demolition of Northland in 2002, Eastland became the oldest shopping mall in the Columbus metro area.
Although Johnson referred to his machine as a ‘pedestrian curricle’, it was formally referred to as a ‘velocipede’, and popularly as a ‘Hobby-horse’, ‘Dandy-horse’, ‘Pedestrian's accelerator’, ‘Swift walker’ and by a variety of other names. Johnson made at least 320 velocipedes in the early part of 1819. He also opened ...
Drais was a prolific inventor, who invented the Laufmaschine ("running machine"), [2] also later called the velocipede, draisine or draisienne , also nicknamed the hobby horse or dandy horse. This was his most popular and widely recognized invention.
A body brush, particularly a smaller design called a Face brush, can be used on the head, while being careful to avoid the horse's eyes. Some natural body brushes are made of horsehair, goat hair, or boar bristles, like human hairbrushes; others are made of soft, synthetic fibers. The body brush is generally the last brush used on the horse.
Société Parisienne (Maison Parisienne) was a French manufacturer of velocipedes, bicycles and tricycles from 1876. [1] [2] They began limited automobile construction in 1894 and regular light car construction in 1898 [3] or 1899, [4] [5] and they ceased operation in 1903. The vehicles, variously known as Parisienne, Victoria Combination ...
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 velocipede is a human-powered, wheeled land vehicle. The term may also refer to: Velocipede, original name of the Benz Velo, the first large-scale production car; Velocipede (horse) (1825–1850), a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire; Velocipede betimari, a species of fossil centipede known from Crato Formation