The History of Bicycles | Industry study | Business History

Описание: I am going to take you through today’s video, which is a brief discussion on the subject of bicycles. Yes, bicycles, from the time the first of them was built back in the beginning of the 19th century. The first bicycles, which you would laugh at, if you happened to see them, and ask, ‘Why would anyone create such a strange vehicle?’

OK. With that brief message, let me return to the subject of the history of bicycles. The vehicles that many of us have used in the past, and many of us use even today. Vehicles that are as much a fitness exercise as they are a means of transport.
So let's begin – but not with the bicycle, but with the wheel.

The wheel, as you might know, was invented by the Sumerian people in Mesopotamia (the ancient civilization that existed in the area that is modern-day Iraq) – sometime in the 5th millennium BC. That is, some 7,000 years ago.

The wheels used on their carts were solid wooden discs in which rotating axles were inserted to move the wheels forward or backward. Around 2000 BC the discs began to be carved out to create lighter, hub-and-spoke wheel arrangements.

While images of the Mesopotamian wheel have been recorded, there is evidence of wheeled carts having been used in other areas too – across Persia and the Middle East, and in India, China, and Eastern Europe. Whether the Chinese, Indians and Europeans invented the wheel independently or after learning from one another is not known.

What we do know is that the wheel was invented a long, long time ago.
If the wheel was invented several thousand years ago, and used on a variety of barrows, carts and carriages, isn’t it a little odd that it was only in the early 19th century that the bicycle was invented – roughly two hundred years ago?

Why did it take so long between the wheel and the bicycle?
Between two-wheeled carts and two-wheeled bicycles? From two wheels placed side by side to two wheels placed in tandem (that is, one behind the other)?
But such is life. What might seem like a simple changing of the axis of two wheels from left-right to front-back was clearly far more complex in reality. For a cart, the axis was the axle. In other words, it was not just the wheels that made the two-wheel cart. It was a combination of an axle and wheels.

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