Bicycles Recycleさんのイラストまとめ

“What I think of #bicycling, I think it has done more to #emancipate women than any one thing in the world.

"It gives her a feeling of self-reliance and independence the moment she takes her seat; and away she goes, the picture of untrammeled womanhood.”
— Susan B. Anthony, 1896

Karl von Drais published a French translation of his advertising leaflet for his "Draisine" or "Laufmaschine" (German for running machine) which referred to it as a velocipede, later called a "Dandy Horse" or "Hobby Horse".
The first pedal-equipped bicycles appeared in the 1860s.

Karl von Drais invented the 'dandy horse' in 1817, the precursor to our modern #bicycle.
The spirit moving the Quakers upon worldly vanities!!
"Many quakers ride velocipedes, towards a plain building, with Society of Friends Meeting House over the door."
― 1819, George Cruikshank