A Severe Fall
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A newspaper article detailing a particular accident involving a high-wheel bicycle. Crashes such as this are one of the only ways bicycles show up in the news in the 1880s, and reinforce the idea that bicycles were dangerous vehicles. Of course, accidents where people fell from horses or wagons were also common, but were not written up in the paper.
This file appears in: Early Des Moines Bicycle History
Early Des Moines Bicycle History
At the end of the 19th century, technology was on the move - literally. After the emergence and dominance of railroads in the middle of the 19th century, the next major transportation revolution was smaller-scale, and much more personal. Theā¦