
From chariots to e-scooters: transformations in transport
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The First Kind of Bicycle Like Thing
The first sort of bicycle like thing is invented er in the 18 tens. It seems to have been inspired as a result of the eruption of tambora, which led to a year without summer. And then it's gradually refined a and you get the sort of penny farthing. You get metal a wheels and spoked wheels, and you get modern brakes and so on. By the 18 eighties, 18 nineties, you have the modern bicycle,. What's called the safety bicycle as a sort of marketing thingt get people to buy it. But since it has two equally sized wheels, it has brakes, it has a saddle. This is a very, very popular thing because it
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