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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.)
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.
Drais invented his Laufmaschine (German for "running machine") in 1817, that was called Draisine (English) or draisienne (French) by the press. Karl von Drais patented this design in 1818, which was the first commercially successful two-wheeled, steerable, human-propelled machine, commonly called a velocipede , and nicknamed hobby-horse or ...
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]
Here’s what you need to know about one dandy horse that claimed the blanket of red roses: What were Mystik Dan’s odds? Mystik Dan went off at 18-1 odds at post time, edging forward to win by a ...
With Belmont Stakes winner Dornoch topping the field, post time for the first of 14 races is at noon, with the Haskell to be run just before 6 p.m. Trainer Todd Pletcher will send 2-year-old ...
One, the scooter-like dandy horse or celerifere of the French Comte de Sivrac, dating to 1790, was long cited as the earliest bicycle, however, most historians now believe these unsteerable hobby-horses probably never existed, but were made up by Louis Baudry de Saunier, a 19th-century French bicycle historian.