The bicycle is over 200 years old. It’s evolution proceeded quickly when it was first invented, and the changes continue to this day.
The bicycle can trace its history back to Germany in the year 1817, when inventor Karl Drais developed a push bike – one without pedals.
Like any other invention there were actually quite a few contributors to the changing design over the years. Other inventors who contributed to the evolution of the bicycle are Scottish blacksmith Kirkpatrick MacMillan, Frenchmen Ernest Michaux and Pierre Lallement, and Englishman James Starley – whose bicycle design, with the extremely large front wheel and the extremely tiny rear wheel was called the “penny farthing.” The “safety bicycle”, with both wheels the same height in a “diamond frame” that is still in use today, came into use in 1885, and in 1888 rides became much more comfortable with the invention of the “pneumatic” tire by Scotsman John Boyd Dunlop.
Over One Hundred Years Later, Improvement Continues
Just over a hundred years later, the basic design of the bicycle has not changed, but improvements are...
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