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The Bicycle with Tim Harford

Patented: History of Inventions

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The Right Brothers - A Great Story of Innovation

Rover were the first british manufactoriers of what became known as the safety bicycle. They then became very big players in the british motor car industry. And of course, you got the right brothers, who were bicycle mechanics, who who built the plane. Can we just pause on penny farthings? Tor momet aue, i'm reallyintrested in the penny farthing. T paves the way for henry ford's assembly line. That's relian tookan james burke,. ourselves from in connections, from the bicycle to the motor car. I think it was rover as well. The ovsy made cars in the u k.

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