However, it may make it clearer if I share an example of something I think is an insight, all about Victorian bicycles. Why did a penny-farthing bicycle have such a big wheel? read more
The well-known dangers of the penny-farthing were, for the time of its prominence, outweighed by its strengths. While it was a difficult, dangerous machine, it was simpler, lighter, and faster than the safer velocipedes of the time. read more