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The Bicycle with Tim Harford

Patented: History of Inventions

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The Bicycle Bubble

Inventors of the bicycle came up with different innovations at about the same time. But they're all very rapidly taking advantage of each other's inventions. And suddenly the bike is everywhere, and you've got these social implications,. suh, women wearing trousers, cycling around without rae chaperones. So that a bicycle bubble. In birmingham, themain, main midland city in the u k. In the 18 nineties, lodanlos, a bicycle company, set up it birmingham. The most successful of them, and the one that really starts the bubble, has the right to use dunlop technology. S you got the dunlop tires. This

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