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The Birth of the Bicycle: from Manuscript to Global Weapon

Compiled By Shanghai Automobile Museum

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Bicycles, which are commonplace today, may have a much higher status in the history of transportation than everyone imagines. This is the first time that humans have a tool that can expand the free transportation radius at minimal cost without relying on animal power. It is convenient, practical, and very fashionable. It once opened a way of sports and social interaction that fashionable men and women were most interested in, and triggered a huge change in women's clothing in Western society. It took people four hundred years to build this exquisite machine bit by bit, like a colorful and charming puzzle. The design and craftsmen of each era contributed to its completion, until the modern version was completed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.