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  2. Dandy horse - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Draisine - Wikipedia

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    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.)

  4. Velocipede - Wikipedia

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    The construction of the boneshaker was similar to the dandy horse: wooden wheels with iron tires and a framework of wrought iron. As the name implies it was extremely uncomfortable, but the discomfort was somewhat ameliorated by a long flat spring that supported the saddle and absorbed some of the shocks from rough road surfaces.

  5. Balance bike - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Robert F. Hall Catholic Secondary School - Wikipedia

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    Robert F. Hall Catholic Secondary School (frequently referred to as Hall or abbreviated as RFH) is a Catholic school located in Caledon East, Ontario, Canada.The school was named after Robert Francis (Bobby Soxer) Hall (1925–1989), the first lay person after whom a Catholic secondary school has been named in the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board.

  7. Pierre Lallement - Wikipedia

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    Lallement left France in July 1865 for the United States, settling in Ansonia, Connecticut, where he built and demonstrated an improved version of his bicycle.With James Carroll of New Haven as his financer, he filed the earliest and only American patent application for the pedal-bicycle in April 1866, and the patent was awarded on November 20, 1866. [5]

  8. EXCLUSIVE: 'Maxton Hall' book trilogy to be published in ...

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    The "Maxton Hall" book series will be published in English for the first time next year. What to know about the German-language books that inspired a hit Prime Video show.

  9. Talk:Dandy horse - Wikipedia

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    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.

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