The invention of the bicycle

The first vehicle that resembled the bicycle was put together in 1645 in France by Jean Theson. However, it was a four-wheeled machine. About 1816, a two wheel contraption was invented in Germany. The passenger has to sit on a seat and propelled himself by running on the ground.The two wheeled bicycle as we know it today was invented in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, in 1839 by a man named Kirkpatrick Macmillan. The bicycle had no pedals or chain-activated gears. Instead there were two foot pedals attached to rods that connected to the back wheel. Unfortunately his invention never became popular. It was a French father-and-son team, Pierre and Ernest Michaux, to build the bicycle from which the present popularity of the vehicle is derived.