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bike history
The first transport that resembled the modern bicycle was -the "running machine" (Laufmaschine) invented in 1817 and patented in 1818 by Karl von Drais, a German Baron. The English name was the draisine, and it consisted of a seat between two wooden wheels, which one could push along, then coast. A version called the hobby horse was sold during 1818.Another early bicycle pioneer was Denis Johnson, who in 1819 improved the "coasting machine" by adding iron fork mounts to the wheels & inproved it. -
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history of the bicicle
What we know as the modern bicycle was not invented until the 1860's, but there were earlier types of inventions that resembled it.
The célérifere, later called velocipede, is said to have been built by the French nobleman Comte de Sivrac in 1791. It had no forks and so could not not be steered in the normal way. Instead a shift in body weight to one side or the other allowed a turn. It is now believed that it had 4 wheels, not 2.