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The Noblest Invention

The Noblest Invention. D. Bruce Panasuk, MD Chief of Surgery, Wilmington VA Medical Center Executive Wellness Director, Kelly Benefits Strategies. The Noblest Invention. The History of the Bicycle. The Noblest Invention. Bicycle Bi = Two Kyklos = Circle, Wheel.

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The Noblest Invention

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  1. The Noblest Invention D. Bruce Panasuk, MD Chief of Surgery, Wilmington VA Medical Center Executive Wellness Director, Kelly Benefits Strategies

  2. The Noblest Invention • The History of the Bicycle

  3. The Noblest Invention Bicycle Bi = Two Kyklos = Circle, Wheel

  4. The Celerifere – circa 1790

  5. The Draisienne – circa 1816

  6. First pedal bike, circa 1839

  7. The Vélocipède ("fast foot") a.k.a. the "boneshaker“, circa 1866

  8. Pierre Lallement

  9. The High Wheeler, or "Penny Farthing" Bike, circa 1870

  10. The origin of the term “breakneck speed”

  11. OUCH!!!

  12. The Rover Safety Bicycle, circa 1885

  13. Safety Bicycle, circa 1895

  14. Cyrille Van Houwaert – Dominant early rider in the Paris-Roubaix Classic 1908-1911

  15. Le Simplex Derailleur, circa 1928

  16. Le Simplex Derailleur, circa 1928

  17. “I still feel that variable gears are only for people over forty-five. Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailleur? We are getting soft... As for me, give me a fixed gear!” – Henri Desgrange, c. 1935

  18. First “Modern” Derailleur, circa 1949

  19. 1970

  20. 2010

  21. 2010

  22. May 21, 2010

  23. The Noblest Invention • Value of Cycling Physical Mental Emotional Social Organizational Environmental Economic

  24. The Noblest Invention • Versatility of Cycling Effective Exercise and Efficient Transportation Cooperation and Competition Community and Solitude Pleasure and Pain

  25. The Noblest Invention • Nobility of Cycling Simplicity and Brilliance Engine and Fuel Pilot and Passenger Man plus Machine

  26. The Noblest Invention “It would not be strange at all if history came to the conclusion that the perfection of he bicycle was the greatest invention of the nineteenth century.” – Author Unknown “When Man invented the bicycle, he reached the peak of his attainments. Here was a machine of precision and balance for the convenience of man. And (unlike subsequent inventions for man’s convenience) the more he used it, the fitter his body became. Here, for once, was a product of man’s brain that was entirely beneficial to those who used it…Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle.” – Elizabeth West, Hovel in the Hills

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