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Not A Modern Invention

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Day
19
Month
July
Year
1893
Copyright
Public Domain
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'The popular belief is that the bicycle is a modern invention, when in fact it really dates back to the seventeenth eentury," said Dr. T. C. Minor, according to the Cincinnati Star. "I learned this one day when I was making some translations from the Journal de Medicine de Paris. Ozaram, in 1694, in his 'Mathematical and Physical Kecreations,' tells of a carriage, as he calis itf, 'in which one can ride without the use of horses.' And then he goes on to teil of how a lackey sits at the back, makes it run by 'walking alternately with his two feet by means of two small wheels concealed in a case just between the wheels behind and attached to the axle of the carriage.' This was the principie of the velocipede, so much improved since then. Uut the priority of the discovery of the bicycle I believe to bc established without further argument or dispute. It yas by a physician, Eli Richard, a young physician of Rochelle, Francc, who made the flrst machine after which our modern bicycle is patternetl. Ile was a medical student in Paris in 1000, and became one of the great physicians of France. He died at the age of sixtjr-one at Roc'nelle in 170G, and thore la a Btreet in Rochelle named for him, and there is now a movement on foot to erect a bronze statue, not to Michaud, who it is claimed was the discoverer of the bicycle, but to the true discoverer. Dr. Eli Richard."

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Ann Arbor Courier