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Inventor, designer
Karl Drais was a German inventor, who invented the Laufmaschine ("running machine"), also later called the velocipede, draisine (English) or draisienne (French), also nicknamed the dandy horse. This incorporated the two-wheeler principle that is basic to the bicycle and motorcycle and was the beginning of mechanized personal transport. Drais also invented the earliest typewriter with a keyboard in 1821, later developed into an early stenograph machine, and a wood-saving cooker including the earliest hay chest.
Who-is-Who in MMS, History of machines, history of mechanical engineering, machine design, designer, inventor, bicycle.
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variant spelling:
Drais von Sauerbronn, Karl Friedrich Christian Ludwig Freiherr
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Curriculum vitae
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* 29.04.1785
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Karlsruhe
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born
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1803 - 1805
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he studies architeture in Heidelberg
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1817
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First trip with his velocipede
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1818
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he patents his draisine
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† 10.12.1851
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Karlsruhe
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died
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