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             1871PERREAUX STEAM VELOCIPEDE


                                                       FRANCE

             The steam velocipede, designed by Frenchman Louis-Guillaume Perreaux, is one of the first
             motorcycles ever made, with different sources citing the date of its creation between 1867 and
             1871. This incredible feat of mechanical ingenuity is a modified ‘boneshaker’ Michaux bicycle
             powered by a steam engine. With wooden wheels, flimsy handlebars and a high seat perched
             precariously above the boiling steam engine, the Perreaux would have been an uncomfortable,
             yet revolutionary, mode of travelling Paris’s streets.

             For more go to
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