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I'm helping Michael out with his school project on cycling (tracking
down suitable web links and such) and came across a biography of
Mikael Pedersen, inventor of the eponymous bicycle, which was so
interesting I thought I should share it.
http://www.dursley-pedersen.net/mp_inventor.shtml
Apparently he was at one time very rich, based on his invention of a
continuous cream centrifuge and other devices, and led a colourful
life (much of it in Dursley in the Midlands) but was not shrewd
financially so died destitute, buried in an unmarked Danish grave. He
had no monument in Denmark despite the importance of his inventions,
and the first memorial was raised by English cyclists in 1979. In
1995 a fund was started to exhume his body and re-bury it in Dursley.
Guy
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May contain traces of irony. Contents liable to settle after posting.
http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk
88% of helmet statistics are made up, 65% of them at Washington University
down suitable web links and such) and came across a biography of
Mikael Pedersen, inventor of the eponymous bicycle, which was so
interesting I thought I should share it.
http://www.dursley-pedersen.net/mp_inventor.shtml
Apparently he was at one time very rich, based on his invention of a
continuous cream centrifuge and other devices, and led a colourful
life (much of it in Dursley in the Midlands) but was not shrewd
financially so died destitute, buried in an unmarked Danish grave. He
had no monument in Denmark despite the importance of his inventions,
and the first memorial was raised by English cyclists in 1979. In
1995 a fund was started to exhume his body and re-bury it in Dursley.
Guy
--
May contain traces of irony. Contents liable to settle after posting.
http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk
88% of helmet statistics are made up, 65% of them at Washington University