Kirkpatrick Macmillan
Scottish inventor
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- In bicycle: Treadles and pedals: powered velocipedes
Kirkpatrick Macmillan, a blacksmith of Dumfriesshire, is most often associated with these. He is said to have traveled 40 miles (64 km) to Glasgow in 1842, although documentation is problematic. Gavin Dalzell of Lesmahagow probably built a similar two-wheeled machine in the mid-1840s and is…
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