Posts Tagged ‘garden transport’
Necessity’s Curious Offspring: How Garden Disaster Birthed the Bicycle
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. June 12, 1817 On this day, a most curious contraption made its debut among the fashionable set of Mannheim, Germany. One Karl Freiherr von Drais, a forest ranger with evidently too much time…
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