Originally Posted by
DougRNS
I did not stop or spend any money in your state.
You missed out. Lots of junk food and fireworks available for wayfarers like you.
Originally Posted by
gnome
very interesting video. At the time of the automata, they had barely got the hang of attaching pedals and cranks to bicycles. Even derailleurs are reasonably modern. Reliable ones that didn't break all the time didn't appear until the late 1920s/early 1930s.
Yeah, the swan and that programmable writer are really something, even if they were crafted today, much less in the 1700s.
I'm led to think that for a number of years people simply didn't see the need for geared bicycles, because in the late 1800s it would have certainly been possible to build them.