Invention Timeline - Richard Lovell Edgeworth, British Inventor and Author; Made Inventions for Sailing Carriages and for a Kind of Velocipede
b. May 31, 1744 and d. June 13, 1817
British inventor and author. A desire to know the result of a race led him to invent a plan for telegraphing. It is said to have been the first attempt. He made other inventions for sailing carriages and for a kind of velocipede. In 1768 he was awarded a silver medal for a land-measuring machine.
Whatever is, is in its causes just,
Since all things are by fate; but purblind man
Sees but a part o’ th’ chain-the nearest link,
His eyes not carrying to that equal beam
That poises all above.
—Oedipus: Dryden
Naturally, men will choose to learn poetry; from
the beginning of time they have done so. To immortal
verse the memory gives a willing, a joyous, and a
lasting home. However, some prose is poetical, is
poetry, and altogether worthy to be learned by heart,
and the learning is not so very difficult. It is not
difficult or toilsome to learn that which pleases us,
and the labor once given, is forgotten while the
result remains.
—Vernon Lushington
1818—A velocipede was invented by Joseph Nicphore Niepce.
1881—The Otto bicycle was first patented.
1890—Pneumatic tire safety bicycles were introduced.
1843, May 20—Albert Augustus Pope was born. He was America’s pioneer manufacturer of bicycles and the founder of the magazine “Outing.”
