Bicycle: The History

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Опубликовано 9 сентября 2016, 19:22
Because we live in an age of cross-country bicycle racing and high-tech mountain bikes, we may overlook the decades of development and ingenuity that transformed the basic concept of human-powered transportation into a marvel of engineering. In Bicycle: The History (named by Outside magazine as the #1 book on bicycles), David Herlihy recounts the saga of this far-reaching invention and the passions it aroused. He retraces the extraordinary story of the bicycleΓÇöa history of disputed patents, brilliant inventions, and missed opportunities ΓÇô and shows us why the bicycle captured the publicΓÇÖs imagination and the myriad ways in which it reshaped our world.
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