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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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                                            | Orthographe également utilisé: Drais von Sauerbronn, Karl Friedrich Christian Ludwig Freiherr
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                                                        | * 29.04.1785 | Karlsruhe | Né |  
                                                        | 1803 - 1805 |  | he studies architeture in Heidelberg |  
                                                        | 1817 |  | First trip with his velocipede |  
                                                        | 1818 |  | he patents his draisine |  
                                                        | † 10.12.1851 | Karlsruhe | Décédé |  |  |