Dandy horse
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dandy-horse-205-11564375
title:
Dandy horse
text:
The dandy horse, an English nickname for what was first called a Laufmaschine, then a vélocipède or draisienne, and then a pedestrian curricle or hobby-horse, or swiftwalker, is a human-powered vehicle that, being the first means of transport to make use of the two-wheeler principle, is regarded as the first bicycle. The dandy horse is a foot-propelled vehicle, powered by the rider's feet on the ground instead of the pedals of later bicycles. It was invented by Karl Drais in 1817, and then paten
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
19th-century human-powered vehicle; predecessor to the bicycle
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dandy_horse
date created:
2005-08-27T14:03:54Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T10:39:17Z
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