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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 ...
George William Jones (1860-1942) was a British printer and type designer of the late nineteenth and twentieth century. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Jones was born in Upton-upon-Severn in Worcestershire and developed a considerable reputation as a fine printer , printing among other work elegant stationery.
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.
Recent technological advances in adhesives and fabrication have made wood a feasible choice in the modern cycle world. [5]Wooden bicycle frames are sometimes aided by steel or composite lugs to connect the wooden tubes or attach components.
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.)
The Caslon foundry continued to be prosperous for some more decades, licensing the Cheltenham typeface from American Type Founders [132] and issuing a specimen designed by the leading printer George W. Jones. [111] [133] The old house that had been the foundry's base for over 170 years was demolished in 1910 and replaced by modern premises.
Geraldine Brooks' “Horse,” a novel about race and forgotten history, and Robert Samuels' and Toluse Olorunnipa's “His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial ...
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 ...