History Of The Bicycle
Vehicles for human transport that have two wheels and require balancing by the rider date back to the early 19th century. The first means of transport making use of two wheels, and thus the archetype of the bicycle, was the German draisine dating back to 1817. The term bicycle was coined in France in the 1860s.
Read more about History Of The Bicycle: Earliest Unverifiable History, 1817 To 1819: The Draisine or Velocipede, 1820s To 1850s: An Era of 3 and 4-wheelers, 1830s: The Reported Scottish Inventions, 1860s and The Michaux or "boneshaker", 1870s: The High-wheel Bicycle, 1880s and 1890s, 20th and 21st Centuries
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