biography
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Macmillan, Kirkpatrick
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1813–78)
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| biography:
| Blacksmith, born near Thornhill, Dumfries and Galloway, SW Scotland, UK. In 1837 he built a ‘dandy’ horse - a kind of bicycle on which the rider pushed himself along with his feet. Three years later he had applied the crank to his machine to make the world's first pedal cycle, with wooden frame and iron-tyred wheels. His invention was never patented, and for many years it was credited to one of his imitators, Gavin Dalzell. |
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