Penny farthing bicycle

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From 1870 to 1885, the penny farthing had a brief, but visually lasting, effect on the development of the bicycle with its very large and distinctive front driven wheel and small rear wheel. It was called a penny farthing after two British coins of the period, the large penny and the much smaller farthing, worth a quarter of a penny.

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Penny Farthing Bicycle. This sort of bicycle was known as an 'ordinary' until the invention of the safety bicycle in the 1880s.

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The penny-farthing, also known as a high wheel, high wheeler or ordinary, was the first machine to be called a “bicycle”. It was popular in ...

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