
velocipede
Sign in to savethumb|225px|Velocipedes from an 1887 German encyclopedia. Among the examples shown are a penny farthing and a boneshaker.
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thumb|225px|Velocipedes from an 1887 German encyclopedia. Among the examples shown are a penny farthing and a boneshaker.
A velocipede (, ) is a human-powered land vehicle with one or more wheels. The most common type of velocipede today is the bicycle.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “velocipede” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.