Inventors of the bicycle and of small personal vehicles, from the dandy horse and the pedal bicycle to the safety bicycle, the Segway and the electric vehicle. An entry belongs here when the cited article calls the person an inventor of the bicycle or of a small personal vehicle. It excludes road and bridge civil engineers. Entries are placed by what their own cited article says, so each one sits in the narrowest group its source supports, and the group page lists it beside the other members.
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Wikipedia: John Kemp Starley
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John Kemp Starley (24 December 1855-29 October 1901) was an English inventor and industrialist who is widely considered the inventor of the modern safety bicycle, and also originator of the tradename Rover.
James Starley (Wikipedia)
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James Starley (21 April 1830-17 June 1881) was an English inventor and father of the bicycle industry.
Karl Drais (Wikipedia)
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Karl Freiherr von Drais (full name: Karl Friedrich Christian Ludwig Freiherr Drais von Sauerbronn; 29 April 1785-10 December 1851) was a noble German forest official and significant inventor in the Biedermeier period.
Kirkpatrick Macmillan (Wikipedia)
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Kirkpatrick Macmillan (2 September 1812 in Keir, Dumfries and Galloway, 26 January 1878 in Keir) was a Scottish blacksmith.
Dean Kamen (Wikipedia)
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Dean Lawrence Kamen (; born April 5, 1951) is an American engineer, inventor, and businessman.
Clive Sinclair (Wikipedia)
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Sir Clive Marles Sinclair (30 July 1940-16 September 2021) was an English entrepreneur and inventor, best known for being a pioneer in the computing industry and also as the founder of several companies that developed consumer electronics in the 1970s and early 1980s.
Stephan Farffler biography (Wikipedia)
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Stephan Farffler (1633, October 24, 1689), sometimes spelled Stephan Farfler, was a German watchmaker of the seventeenth century whose invention of a manumotive carriage in 1655 is widely considered to have been the first self-propelled wheelchair.
Shane Chen (Wikipedia)
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Shane Chen (Chinese: 陈星; born 10 February 1956 in Beijing, China) is a Chinese-American inventor and entrepreneur based in Camas, Washington.
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