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A human-powered transport mode in which a two- or three-wheeled cart carrying one or more passengers is pulled or pedaled by a single operator, either running on foot with hand-held shafts or, in the more common modern form, pedaling a tricycle-style cycle rickshaw. Rickshaws originated in East Asia as a hand-pulled passenger cart and later spread across much of Asia and Africa, evolving in many places into the pedaled cycle rickshaw and, later still, motorized versions that fall outside this human-powered mode.

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Core Concern
Small-capacity, human-powered local transport of one or a few passengers by a single pulling or pedaling operator. 1
Origin Year
1869 1
Most widely accepted theory places invention in Japan in 1869 by Izumi Yosuke with partners Suzuki Tokujiro and Takayama Kosuke; competing accounts credit a French vinaigrette carriage from the late seventeenth century and separate nineteenth century American claims, none as widely accepted.
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Rickshaw, Vehicles
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1. Wikipedia: Rickshaw
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  • History, Inventor
    The most widely accepted theory offers the name of three inventors, and gives 1869 as the date of invention.
  • Lead section
    A rickshaw, originally denoted a pulled rickshaw, is a two- or three-wheeled cart generally pulled by one person and carrying one passenger.
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