The Bicycle with Tim Harford
Patented: History of Inventions
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The Penny Farthing - The Next Stage in the Bicycles Evolution
There were no pedals or anything on this is it. Youre just propel yourself for these long, loping strides. So it's dramatically inferior to what we now regard as a bicycle. There was a bit of a fad for them. They were sometimes called dandy horses. For about six months, people would be charging around the streets of london on these things. Everybody thoght they were ridiculous and they very rapidly went out of fashion.
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