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Leonardo DaVinci sketched a design for a very modern looking bicycle.
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Drais' vehicle was first exhibited in Paris.
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Scottish inventor Kirkpatrick Macmillan devised a system of driving levers and pedals, that allowed the rider to propel the machine with feet off the ground.
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The first bicycle ever made.
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Ernest Michaux invented a bicycle with pedals and rotary cranks.
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The first really popular and commercially successful velocipede design was invented by French blacksmith, Ernest Michaux.
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Ernest Michaux found the first company to manufacture velocipedes with pedals commercially.
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The Penny Farthing is also referred to as the "High" or "Ordinary" bicycle, was invented.
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British inventor John Kemp Starley designed the first "safety bicycle" with a steerable front wheel, two equally-sized wheels, and a chain drive to the rear wheel.
