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The Bicycle with Tim Harford
Patented: History of Inventions
Social Mobility
Women invented skirts with pulleys so they could get over the cross bar. The bicycle became this great symbol of thatcherism in the 19 eightiesad, i can't remember who it was. It's really tese, these wr really peculiar, but wonderful patents to have evolved alongside the bicycle and made it ridable 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 terific.
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