Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Kirkpatrick MacMillan
Standard Name: MacMillan, Kirkpatrick
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1834: Kirkpatrick MacMillan, a Scottish blacksmith,...
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1834
Kirkpatrick MacMillan
, a Scottish blacksmith, invented the pedal tricycle at Keir, Dumfriesshire, Scotland.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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1839: Kirkpatrick MacMillan, a Scottish blacksmith...
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1839
Kirkpatrick MacMillan
, a Scottish blacksmith at Keir in Dumfriesshire, invented the first self-propelling bicycle. In June 1842 he publicized his invention by riding it the sixty-eight miles from his home to Glasgow.
Panati, Charles. Panati’s Browser’s Book of Beginnings. Houghton Mifflin, 1984.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Buchanan, Stewart. “Made in Scotland”. London Review of Books, 3 Aug. 2006, p. 6.
