History and Evolution of Bicycle
The bicycle is a good means of exercise and also popular sport in many countries.
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Bicycle is a good means of exercise and also popular sports in many countries. Earlier, when bicycle were invented and implemented for use in 19th century they were in few numbers but have now grown to billions around the world.
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Not a single inventor but multiple people and situations helped the invention of bicycle. German Baron Karl von Drais invented the first means for human transport with two wheels, the draisine with the basic architecture in 1817.
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Later, mechanical crank was added to the basic design of bicycle by Pierre Michaux and Pierre Lallement in 1860 and Thomas McCall, an inventor from Scotland came up with the rod-driven bicycle.
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Slowly and gradually addition of new features and mechanics in bicycle produced the current design of bicycles with gears and other add-ons.
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Many small inventions such as invention of ball bearings, chain-driven sprockets, paved roads, spoke-tensioned wheels etc. also helped the evolution of bicycle.
