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Universidade do Estado do Mato Grosso - UNEMAT
2025
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The first bicycle

With covid and the coming climate crisis, bicycles are getting more and more popular. But where did the bicycle come from? Who invented this "velocipede"?


You may be surprised to learn that the humble bicycle was invented several years later than the railway locomotive! But the two-wheeler has come a long way since the day it was invented by a Scottish blacksmith, Kirkpatrick MacMillan, back (it is said) in 1839.

MacMillan developed his bike from an older wheeled vehicle, called a "hobby horse". This was a wooden horse with two wheels. The rider sat on the horse, and pushed the vehicle along with his feet. It was not a very fast or safe vehicle, since it had no steering and no brakes.

MacMillan, nicknamed Mad Pate, modified the hobby horse, by adding a system of articulated bars. The rider could push the bars back and forwards with his feet, and make the back wheel go round. He could also steer the bike, as the front wheel could be turned.

To demonstrate his invention, he cycled 60 miles to Glasgow! It must have been a terrible journey, on the roads of the day! Pate's bike did not have rubber tyres or springs.

Mad Pate was not recognised in his time, but other people became interested in bicycles. Twenty-five years later, a Frenchman called Pierre Lallemant designed and patented the first bicycle with rotary pedals; and in 1876, H.J.Lawson added another basic feature, "chain-drive".

Other features, such as rubber tyres and gears, have appeared since then; but the basic bicycle has not changed.

Since then the bicycle has had a magnificent fortune. Today, it is probably the most common form of transport in the world, especially in developing countries; and non-polluting and easy to ride, it has a big future as the town vehicle of tomorrow. Thanks Pate!

Disponível em: https://linguapress.com/intermediate/bike- story.htm. Acesso em: 02 out. 2024

De acordo com o texto,
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a bicicleta, uma grande invenção do ferreiro escocês Mad Pate, como conhecido, foi criada por volta de 1839, como um veículo com rodas, o cavalo de pau. Para demonstrar sua invenção, Pate percorreu 60 milhas até uma das cidades da Escócia, Glasgow, mas, mesmo assim, na época, ele não conseguiu o reconhecimento pela autoria da bicicleta.
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o cavalo de pau deixou de existir para dar vida à bicicleta por volta de 1876. O inventor H.J. Lawson aproveitou as ideias do cavalo de pau e reuniu algumas características necessárias para a montagem e a prática de pedalar e de locomoção. Lawson, graças a sua engenhosidade, transformou o cavalo de pau na bicicleta e ficou reconhecido mundialmente por esse meio de transporte.
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a bicicleta foi patenteada depois de 1876 pelo escocês Pierre Lallemant, que adicionou características modernas ao cavalo de pau, transformando-o na bicicleta, um dos meios de transportes de grande valor mundial, acessível, fácil de pedalar e que contribui consideravelmente para amenizar a crise climática.
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a bicicleta foi inventada por volta de 1839, a partir de um veículo de rodas, o cavalo de pau, pelo ferreiro francês Kirkpatrick MacMillan. Para demonstrar a sua invenção, mesmo sem pneus de borracha e sem molas, percorreu 60 milhas de Glasgow a vários lugares, no entanto, MacMillan não conseguiu o reconhecimento da sua invenção.