15. sept 1801 olevat jalgratas leiutatud

[mart]

Kes leiutas raadio - venelased ütlevad, et Popov, muu maailm, et Marconi
Kes leiutas jalgratta- venelased ütlevad, et Artamonov, muu maailm, et parun von Drais

On this day, 15 September, 1801, a peasant named Efim Artamonov presented his invention, the world’s first bicycle, to Russia’s tsar Alexander I.
The world’s first bicycle was built at the Nizhnetagilsky Factory in the Urals out of iron, in the form of a two-wheel cart with a treadle drive on the front wheel and handlebars. The front wheel was almost three times bigger than the rear one, and they were fastened together with an arched metal frame. The bicycle was foot-operated with pedals, which were pivotally mounted on the front wheel.
Its design and framework was so durable that the inventor was able to travel a difficult journey of nearly 2000km (thus completing the first ever cycling tour as well) to Petersburg from the town of Verhoturye. Artamonov traveled at an average speed of 10km/h, surprising locals with his iron machine, and frightening horses.


"A Legend about Artamonov". In Nizny Tagil Museum of local history some years ago an iron bicycle was exhibited. It stayed at the museum for a long time, and museum visitors were told that the bicycle had been made by Demidov's serf - Efim Miheevich Artamonov in 1800, some 30 years before first pedal bicycles were invented. The legend said that Demidov's serf drove to Ekaterinburg on his bicycles "and all the horses he met on the road were frightened and not only reared up, but rushed at the fences and made much damage and trouble to the passers-by." After the precise study of all historic documents about the museum's bicycle and about Artamonov, scientists of the museum proved that the bicycle itself had been made in the second half of the XIX th century and the story about it is nothing more but a legend.

[dr Holden]

A mille see Prussakov siis leiutas? Või oli ta nö reinventor?

[Kuldar]

Prussakovil lõi lampotška põlema 100 aastat hiljem. Väidetavalt. Oleks rohkem samakat käepärast olnud, oleks Maci teinud.