bicycle. The term was probably first coined by Karl von Drais in French as vélocipède for the French translation of his advertising leaflet for his version...

shipwrecks in August 1874 LNWR 187 Velocipede - see Locomotives of the London and North Western Railway Le Vélocipède Illustré, a French newspaper published...

was first called a Laufmaschine ("running machine" in German), then a vélocipède or draisienne (in French and then English), and then a pedestrian curricle...

Electric Velocipede was a small press speculative fiction fan magazine edited by John Klima. Published from 2001 to 2013, Electric Velocipede won the Hugo...

introduced by Karl Benz as the Velocipede, and became the world's first standardized serial production car. The Velocipede remained in production between...

The Roper steam velocipede was a steam-powered velocipede built by inventor Sylvester H. Roper of Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts, United States sometime...

USS Velocipede (SP-1258) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919. Velocipede was built as a private motorboat of the same...

The Svea Velocipede was an early bicycle type invented in the 19th century by the Swedish brothers Fredrik Ljungström and Birger Ljungström. The bicycle...

A pedalo (British English), pedal boat (U.S. English), or paddle boat (U.S., Canadian, and Australian English) is a human-powered watercraft propelled...

Le Vélocipède Illustré co-organised the world's first 'city to city' road-race for bicycles, from Paris to Rouen on 7 November 1869. Le Vélocipède Illustré...

by Karl von Drais in 1817. He built himself a model and called it the vélocipède (fast foot) and caused quite a sensation on the local country roads. Niépce...

and special walking areas reserved for them. In the West, bicycles or (velocipedes), efficient human-powered machines for short- and medium-distance travel...

Velocipede (1825–1850) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. In a racing career which was restricted by injury he raced nine times in three years...

Michaux, besides producing parts for the carriage trade, was producing "vélocipède à pédales" on a small scale. The wealthy Olivier brothers Aimé and René...

trolley, pump car, rail push trolley, push-trolley, jigger, Kalamazoo, velocipede, or draisine) is a railroad car powered by its passengers, or by people...

wheels with wire spokes were patented by Eugène Meyer of Paris. The French vélocipède, made of iron and wood, developed into the "penny-farthing" (historically...

The Michaux-Perreaux steam velocipede was a steam powered velocipede made in France some time from 1867 to 1871, when a small Louis-Guillaume Perreaux...

Hemmings, Richard C., "Improvement in velocipede", published 1869-07-13  Goddard, J. T. (1869). The velocipede: its history, varieties, and practice....

steam velocipede which patent application was filed in December 1868, constructed around the same time as the American Roper steam velocipede, built...

contest was on April 28, 1887, by the chief editor of Paris publication Le Vélocipède, Monsieur Fossier. It ran 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) from Neuilly Bridge to...

conspicuous consumption. The penny-farthing used a larger wheel than the velocipede, thus giving higher speeds on all but the steepest hills. In addition...

joint in his Horse-Power. In the same year, Clark described his Marine Velocipede using the term to refer to the gear-driven shaft transmitting power through...

credited with being first to add cranks and pedals to a vélocipède. Moore owned a Michaux vélocipède around 1865. One report said: It was in 1865 that Moore...

Albert Pope was inspired by a British-made, high-wheeled bicycle (called a velocipede) that he saw at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, and he bought...

Pyréolophore), together with his brother Claude and made improvements to the velocipede, as well as experimenting with lithography and related processes. Their...

that one of Australia's first bicycle races was held. The event was for velocipedes, crude wooden machines with pedals on the front wheels. In 1898 the Austral...

designed. Sylvester H. Roper (1823–1896), inventor of the Roper steam velocipede, died of a heart attack or subsequent crash during a public speed trial...

Carlo Maserati Carlo Maserati on a velocipede. Born 1881 Voghera, Italy Died 1910 (aged 28–29) Occupation Engineer Relatives Maserati Brothers...

accident in which an anonymous "gentleman from Dumfries-shire... bestride a velocipede... of ingenious design" knocked over a pedestrian in the Gorbals and was...

exported all over the world. By 1870, he was manufacturing carousels with Velocipedes (an early type of bicycle) and he soon began experimenting with other...