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    With four key aspects (steering, safety, comfort and speed) improved over the penny-farthing, bicycles became very popular among elites and the middle classes in Europe and North America in the middle and late 1890s.
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    Although French and English inventors modified the velocipede into the high-wheel bicycle, the French were still recovering from the Franco-Prussian war, so English entrepreneurs put the high-wheeler on the English market, and the machine became very popular there, Coventry, Oxford, Birmingham and … See more

    Vehicles that have two wheels and require balancing by the rider date back to the early 19th century. The first means of transport making use of two wheels arranged consecutively, and thus the archetype of the … See more

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    The roadster
    The ladies' version of the roadster's design was very much in place by the 1890s. It had a See more

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    There are several early, but unverified claims for the invention of the bicycle.
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    1817 to 1819: The Draisine or Velocipede
    The first verifiable claim for a practically used bicycle belongs to German Baron Karl von Drais, … See more

    The 21st century has seen a continued application of technology to bicycles (which started in the 20th century): in designing them, … See more

    • Bijker, Wiebe E. (1995). Of bicycles, bakelites, and bulbs: toward a theory of sociotechnical change. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT … See more

     
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