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Show A Chapter of Beginnings. Bicycles were first used in France about' 1815. The first church bells were used in France about 650. Suspension bridges wero the first form of bridges in use. Tho wheelbarrow was invented bv Leonardo da Vinci, tho painter. Barrels were first made a century or so B. C. iu the Alpine valleys. The first telescope was used bv Hans Lipporshim of Holland iu 1G08." The first railway locomotive was patented by Trevethick, a Welshman in 1802. The Earliest known coins were issued by the Greeks in the seventh century B. C. J The first electric telegraph was constructed con-structed by Lesage of Geneva in 1774. It had a wire for ewli letter of the alphabet |