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  Hobby Horse/ Swift walker,and an improved celerifere that can be steered with handlebars.
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  Kirkpatrick MacMilan of Scotland adds cranks and treadmills to the rear axle
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  Pedals are added to the front wheel of a two-wheeled machine, creating a bone-jarring machine called the velocipede or "boneshaker."
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  first high-wheel Ordinary, is manufactured in Britian.
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  Thomas Stevens pedals across the United States --from Oakland, California, to Boston Massachusetts. J. K. Starley invents the "safety bicycle."
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  Margaret Valentine Le Long rides from Chicago to San Francisco; coaster brakes are invented; Henry Ford builds his first succesful automobile.
