[DOC] [TLE] Penny Farthing Bicycle (1860's)  Mortal Journey [PAR] Mar 6, 2011 ... Called the Draisine, walking machine, hobby horse, or dandy horse, it was ... The 
first modern day bicycle was created in the early 1860's. ... The fad quickly faded 
primarily because the bikes were so uncomfortable to ride. ... began with the 
introduction of the Columbia High Wheeler Penny Farthing bicycle. [DOC] [TLE] History of the bicycle - Wikipedia [PAR] Vehicles for human transport that have two wheels and require balancing by the 
rider date back ... There are several early but unverified claims for the invention of 
the bicycle. ... successful two-wheeled, steerable, human-propelled machine, 
commonly called a velocipede, and nicknamed hobby-horse or dandy horse. It 
was... [DOC] [TLE] History of The Bicycle [PAR] Riders propelled the hobby horse (as it was also called) by paddling their feet on 
the ... It was also known as the penny-farthing, because the wheels looked like a 
large ..... Grout patents a folding High Wheeler, the first portable bicycle ... 
Cycles Aluminium becomes one of the earliest manufacturers of an aluminum 
bicycle. [DOC] [TLE] High Wheeler | Sierra Ski and Cycle Works [PAR] Nov 8, 2012 ... I already have my two dream mountain bikes so this one is just a commuter. ... is 
all because my new commuter is a Penny Farthing or some would call it a high 
wheeler. The high wheeler is a strange bike from right around 1870. ... These 
bikes were known as Velocipedes but they were affectionately called... [DOC] [TLE] Bicycle Design: An Illustrated History on JSTOR [PAR] The bicycle ranks as one of the most enduring, most widely used vehicles in ... 
The high-wheeler was simple, efficient, and elegant, but it was an ... penny-
farthing, was British slang; as was mentioned in chapter 3, it referred ... In Britain, 
machines inspired by the draisine were often called hobby-horses or dandy 
horses. [DOC] [TLE] Social Studies Match 1--January 23, 2014 - Wythe County Schools ... [PAR] Jan 23, 2014 ... Early ones were called the "hobby horse", "penny-farthing", and "high-wheeler". 
What mode of transportation is this? Begin (A bicycle). [DOC] [TLE] Bicycle Fixation: Bikes and the City [PAR] The high-wheeler developed when builders realized that simply by making the 
drive ... wheel, one could achieve only one turn of the wheel for one turn of the 
pedals. ... but early chains were not suitable for the rugged use to which riders 
put them. ... still tooling around Dorchester on his "byke," as he called it, in his 
eighties. [DOC] [TLE] 1 A short history of bicycling - MIT Press [PAR] Many boats, even large ones, were muscle-powered until the seven- teenth 
century ... Figure 1.1. Early-seventeenth-century galley, with drummer in the stern 
and a whip- .... obtained a five-year patent (Wolf 1890) it was called le vlocipe`
de or the. Draisienne ..... Figure 1.13. The ordinary, or high-wheeler, or penny-
farthing. [DOC] [TLE] Bicycle History Paper - Sports Biomechanics Lab [PAR] Also called a `high bicycle', `ordinary' and `penny-farthing', the High Wheeler was 
developed in the early 1870s when the manufacturers of the velocipede... [DOC] [TLE] History The Evolution of the Bicycle - Bridgeman Images [PAR] 1819: the Hobby Horse ... 'Penny-farthing', 'high wheel', 'high wheeler', and '
ordinary' were all terms used to ... They were the first machines to be called "
bicycles." ... that we recognize today as a tandem seems to show up in the early 
1890's. ... and so it was only natural that bike racing was included as one of the 
events in... [DOC] [TLE] Bicycle: the History by David V. Herlihy | Experience Plus [PAR] Jul 27, 2010 ... Glacially slow at first, this process took us from the hobby horse or push ... no

Question: Early ones were called the "hobby horse", "penny-farthing" & "high-wheeler"
Answer: a bicycle