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The Bicycle with Tim Harford
Patented: History of Inventions
What Is a Bicycle?
In 18 15, there was a catastrophic explosion in what we would now call indonesia of mount tambora. Changed the world's weather dramatically for several years. In europe became known as the year without summer. Crops failed. There was widespread starvation. Was absolutely catastrophic. One of the things that was invented was frankenstein. Mari wrote frankenstein that summer. Another thing that was invented is karl drace's velocipede - sometimes called a dracien.
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