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Bicycles
The
bicycle was the first human-powered land transportation device to
increase personal mobility and freedom. Its introduction at the beginning
of the nineteenth century enabled people to travel significantly further in a
given time than they could on foot, and was competitive with the horse.
This
church window in Stoke Poages, England, is one of the earliest (1637)
representations of two- wheeled human-powered transportation. In terms
of a practicable device, the history starts in the late 1700's with the advent
of the "Hobby Horse" in Paris in 1791.
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