Bicycles
Then
- The Boneshaker or bicycle was popular by 1869.
- John Dunlop developed the pneumatic tire in 1888.
- There were ten million bicycles in the U.S. in 1895.
- “The ordinary ‘horseless carriage’ is at present a luxury for the wealthy;and although the price will probably fall in the future, it will never, of course, come into as common use as the bicycle.” The Literary Digest, 1899.