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Tim Talks Bicycles with Patented
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Is the Bicycle a Good Idea?
Women were inventing, or innovating with some different materials and al so sort of skirts with pulleys and things that you could pull so your skirt would come up. And it's really athing how these these peculiarbut wonderful patents to have evolved alongside the bicycle in order to make it ridable, particularly for women. I love this idea. That's obviously the solution. Not lower the cross bar, not wear some trousers, skirt pullers. But ye, indeed, this is, this is the way humans think. It's trific a. She's social mobility.
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