Show aw i 1 I 1 3 NOT A MODERN INVENTION the bicycle said to lla e been ett ud ty b a french physician in 1668 1666 the popular belief is that the bicycle is a modern invention when in fact it really dates back to the seventeenth century said dr T C minor according ding to the cincinnati star 1 I learned e d this one day when I 1 was making i ng some translations from the journal de medicine de paris Oz arain in 1694 in Mathematical his and physical recreations tells of a carriage as he calls it in which one can ride without the use of horses and then be goes on to tell of how a lackey sits at the back makes it run by walking alternately with liis his two feet by Q means cans of two small wheels concealed in a case just between the wheels behind and attached to the axle atle a tle of the carriage this was the principle of the velocipede so much improved d since then hut but the priority of af the discovery of the bicycle I 1 believe to be established without further argument arg or dispute it was by a physician ell eli richard Ric naru a young physician of rochelle Roe helle france F rance who made the first ma machine chine after which our modern modem bicycle is patterned lie he was a medical student in paris in and became one of the great physicians of france he H c died at the age ag c of sixty sisty one at rochelle in 1700 and there is a street in rochelle named for him and there is now a a I 1 movement edenton on foot to erect a bronze statue not inot to michaud who it is claimed was the discoverer of the bicycle but to the true discoverer dr eli richard |