THE BICYCLE

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¿What is the bicycle?
The bicycle colloquially called bike is a vehicle of
personal transport of human propulsión is driven
by the traveler who drives the vehicle with the
muscular effort of the legs in particular by pedals
is a sustainable means of transport ecological
sustainable and economic. Valid to move both by
city as rural áreas its use extends throughout the
Word because the bike is very ecological and
economic.
 Origin of the bicycle
• In anceient egypt rudimetrary artifacts
were made up of two wheels joined by a
bar. It was also known in China a very
similar device, but with wheels made of
bamboo. There is a belief that the first
news about a bicycle dates back to the year
1490, approximately, in the work Codex
Atlanticus, by Leonardo da Vinci. In them
can be seen a sketch of a bicycle with
chain transmission driven by pedals (the
same method used by the current ones),
but it was nothing more than a joke
perpetrated in the 1960.
 Types of bicycles
The draisiana:
This "walking machine" consisted of a kind of two-
wheeled cart, placed one behind the other, and a
handlebar. The person was sitting on a small mount,
placed in the center of a small wooden frame. To move,
he alternately pushed with his left foot and his right
foot forward, similar to the movement of a skater.
With this impulse, the vehicle acquired a speed almost
identical to that of a carriage.
The pedal bike :

The construction of the first bicycle with pedals is attributed to the

Scottish Kirkpatrick Macmillan, in the year 1839. A copy of
Macmillan's bicycle is exhibited at the Science Museum in London,
England. Macmillan never patented the invention, which was later
copied in 1846 by Gavin Dalzell of Lesmahagow, who disseminated it
so widely that he was considered for fifty years the inventor of the
bicycle.
Evolution of the bicycle
¡Thank you for your attention!

Presentation prepared by
Luisa sucerquia and Yelisabeth Sabaye
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