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Bicycles and the Year Without Summer

Posted: Mon May 16, 2016 5:51 am
by themanintheseersuckersuit
http://mashable.com/2015/08/29/evolutio ... GVdidH5kqw

Also called the “Draisine,” the device was created not out of fancy but necessity — Drais was looking for a substitute for the horses that had starved to death in the recent volcanic winter, caused by the eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815.