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Ever wondered how the first scooter came about What happened and Who is the person behind Two Wheel Foldable Scooter

Jul. 18, 2024

When you look around, it is quite obvious that Children Scooter For Teenagers are having their big comeback. Foldable City Campus Scooter  have a rather simple construction and gained popularity easily even a long time ago. It is quite possible that many of our clients' parents and grandparents had one too. It is difficult to say who is the father of this fun invention but we do know that the prototype was a good o'balance bike. That's right!

 

It might be difficult to imagine but the very first Kick Scooter With Foot Brake looked more like a balance bike than what we see these days on our sidewalks. Karl Friedrich von Drais was a German inventor and in 1813 he created "a thing" that he called a velocipede- you might have seen it in many black and white old photographs. A two wheeler with the front one being very large, and the one in the back- quite small. On September 1st, 1817, our man Karl rode 50 km on his "running machine" (that is how he called his velocipede initially). It took him 4 hours to get from one German town to another: from Karlsruhe to Kehl. The invention however was not met with great enthusiasm and the prototype of today's balance bike (Two Wheel Foldable Scooter) was auctioned and sold for 5 German marks (don't ask us about the equivalent of today's Euro but surely it was not much)

 Ever wondered how the first scooter came about What happened and Who is the person behind Two Wheel Foldable Scooter

It is quite plausible that another less known German inventor, inspired by von Drais, came up with an idea in 1817 to remodel the velocipede by getting rid of the seat and adding a deck instead. It is common knowledge however that during the Great Depression in the United States, many children would make by themselves some wooden constructions similar in shape to today's Children Scooter.

 

 


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