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245 00 Bicycle :|b200 Years on Two Wheels. 
264  1 [Place of publication not identified] :|bThe History Press,
       |c[2017] 
264  4 |c©2017 
300    1 online resource (144 pages) 
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520    Baron Karl Drais introduced the first two-wheeled self-
       propelled vehicle in the summer of 1817, calling it the 
       "dandy horse." Two hundred years later, that same concept 
       has democratized travel like no other means of 
       transportation, granting women new-found freedoms and 
       offering ordinary people an affordable means of travel all
       over the world. The mechanically powered velocipede took 
       off in the 1860s, followed by the iconic penny-farthing, 
       but the golden age of cycling arrived with the late 19th 
       century, as people relished the freedoms afforded by self-
       powered travel, and cycle touring became a popular 
       pastime. Today cycling is a global phenomenon both in 
       professional sporting and non-professional spheres. This 
       book traces the bicycle's revolutionary 200-year story, 
       from its important role in wartime to the high-tech age of
       the velodrome. 
588 0  Publisher metadata. 
650  7 TRANSPORTATION / Bicycles.|2bisacsh 
655  0 Electronic books. 
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