Show 12 NOT A MODERN INVENTION the bicycle said bala to have boon tint first usa bry by a aur trench physician Phyl clan la in 1668 1866 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 miuor minor according to the cincinnati star 1 I learned this one day when I 1 was ma matr k ins ing some translations from th the journal de medicine de paris in 1695 1 in his mathematical Mathana and P physical Rec recreations rations 1 tells of a carriage as aa lie be calls it in which one can ride rida without the udor UM of horses 3 and then ho h goes on to toll tell of how a lackey uta sits at the back makes it ran mn by walking alternately with hip hie two feet by means of two small wheels concealed in ccase case just between tho wheels behind and attached to the axle of the carriage this was the principle of tho the velocipede so much improved sinco since then but the priority of the discovery of the bicycle I 1 believe to be established without further argument or dispute it evl was r by a physician eli eai richard kichard a young physician of rochelle Eo chelle france I 1 who made the first mac machine bin after which our modern bicycle is in patterned lie ile was a medical student in paris in 1668 1660 and became one of the grea great physicians of prance france ige he died at the age ag e of sixty one at rochelle Eo chelle in 1700 1703 and r there is a street in rochelle Ko chelle named for him hain and there is now a movement on foot to erect a bronze statue not to michaud who it is claimed was the disco discoverer berer of the tha bicycle but to the true discoverer dr ell eli richard rc i h a rd 11 |