our timeline- bicycles

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  • May 21, 1490

    The first bicycle design

    The first bicycle design
    Leonardo DaVinci sketched a design for a very modern looking bicycle.

  • Drais' vehicle

    Drais' vehicle
    Drais' vehicle was first exhibited in Paris.

  • Feet of the round!!

    Scottish inventor Kirkpatrick Macmillan devised a system of driving levers and pedals, that allowed the rider to propel the machine with feet off the ground.

  • The bicycle was born

    The bicycle was born
    The first bicycle ever made.

  • Bicycles pedals and rotary cranks

    Ernest Michaux invented a bicycle with pedals and rotary cranks.

  • The first really popular design

    The first really popular and commercially successful velocipede design was invented by French blacksmith, Ernest Michaux.

  • The first company

    Ernest Michaux found the first company to manufacture velocipedes with pedals commercially.

  • The Penny Farthing

    The Penny Farthing is also referred to as the "High" or "Ordinary" bicycle, was invented.

  • the first "safety bicycle"

    the first "safety bicycle"
    British inventor John Kemp Starley designed the first "safety bicycle" with a steerable front wheel, two equally-sized wheels, and a chain drive to the rear wheel.