Transcript The age of the Bicycle

The age of the Horse & Cart
Origins are as old as the invention of the wheel ~3,500 BC
(oldest known from Mesopotamia)
1500s European upper class began using closed horse-drawn carriages
Amish Today
Catherine the Great 1762-1796
Handsome Cab 1834
The age of the Bicycle
1816
Baron Von Drais
Celefire
1860s
Velocipedse
1890s Safety
Steel construction; Chain & sprocket (gear ratio); Pneumatic
tires (Dunlop); Call for Good Roads (paving the way for thze
automobile)
1870s
Ordinary
More than 2,000 different
manufacturers producing
over 300 varieties