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Por otro lado, ha existido durante mucho tiempo la creencia de que los primeros
documentos o escritos sobre la bicicleta databan del año 1490, aproximadamente,
en la obra Codex Atlanticus, de Leonardo da Vinci. En ellos puede verse un
boceto de una bicicleta con transmisión de cadena impulsada por unos pedales, el
mismo método empleado por las actuales. Pero, a finales de la década de los 90,
se pudo constatar y comprobar que este hecho no fue más que una broma, o fraude
perpetrado en la década de los 60 y dado como cierto durante más de 30 años.
Resulta que Macmillan nunca patentó el invento, no patento la bicicleta. Años más
tarde, en 1846, fue Gavin Dalzell de Lesmahagow quien lo difundió tan
ampliamente que fue considerado durante cincuenta años como el inventor de la
bicicleta. Cerca ya de 1890, el inglés John Boyd Dunlop inventó una cámara de
tela y caucho, que se inflaba con aire y se colocaba en la llanta, un invento que
evolucionó a la bicicleta y la consolidó como tal, y como la conocemos hoy en día.
WHO INVENTED THE BICYCLE?
The bicycle as an element that unites us, entertains us
and entertains us has an origin, not as clear as we would
like. This machine, which is undoubtedly one of the
great inventions of humanity has undergone a great
development over the years, especially in the last
decades, in which the concept of bicycle and above all,
the materials of the that are built have evolved
exponentially.
Now, who was the inventor of the bicycle? I do not know if on any occasion you have
asked this question; but here we will try to address this issue, which certainly is not
very clear and about which there is no absolute truth.
They say in some texts, that in ancient Egypt rudimentary artifacts were made up of
two wheels joined by a bar. Also, in China it seems that there existed, in remote
times, a similar artifact made with bamboo; but that in no case these have been
denominated like bicycle. These artifacts, gadgets or how we want to define them
could be the old ancestors of the bicycle, it could be, although it is not properly
documented either.
On the other hand, there has long been a belief that the first documents or writings
on the bicycle dated from the year 1490, approximately, in the work Codex
Atlanticus, by Leonardo da Vinci. In them you can see a sketch of a bicycle with
chain transmission driven by pedals, the same method used by the current ones.
But, at the end of the 90s, it was possible to verify and verify that this fact was nothing
more than a joke, or fraud perpetrated in the 60s and given as true for more than 30
years.
What is documented and not a joke is that, in 1817, the German baron Karl Christian
Ludwig Drais von Sauerbronn invented the first two-wheeled vehicle, which he called
'walking machine' - laufmaschine - which is the predecessor or the origin of what
was later the bicycle. Basically this walking machine was a small trolley with two
wheels placed in vertical line and a kind of handlebar that served to guide the
ingenuity. It lacked pedals, so we can not say it was the first bicycle, because indeed,
these elements are essential in what we know today as a bicycle.
This machine, which was also called the Draisiana, in honor of its inventor, was
moved by human force. It had a kind of mount on which the person was mounted
and by the thrust of the feet resting on the ground, the movement was generated. In
this way, man was saved a lot of work when moving loads. After the Draisiana, was
more commonly called velocipede and its evolution occurred very quickly.
The thing begins to look like a bicycle. The witness in this evolution was taken by
the French blacksmith and inventor Pierre Michaux, considered today as one of the
developers of the modern bicycle.
It is in the year 1839, when the first bicycle with pedals appears and is attributed to
the Scot Kirkpatrick Macmillan. This machine already had two wheels, it had a
handlebar, pedals and a mechanical transmission that allowed the movement,
therefore it was already a bicycle. We could well say that the inventor of the bicycle
was this Scot, and indeed it was like that, but the thing does not end there.
It turns out that Macmillan never patented the invention, did not pate the bicycle.
Years later, in 1846, it was Gavin Dalzell of Lesmahagow who spread it so widely
that he was considered for fifty years as the inventor of the bicycle. Close to 1890,
the Englishman John Boyd Dunlop invented a cloth and rubber chamber, which
inflated with air and was placed on the rim, an invention that evolved to the bicycle
and consolidated it as such, and as we know it today .