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The first bicycle had no pedals

The 1817 draisine was pushed along by the rider's feet. Pedals arrived decades later, and the chain drive only in the 1880s.

Standard steel boxes cut loading time from weeks to hours after 1956, collapsing freight costs and making global supply chains possible.

The famous yellow tram still squeezes through steep, narrow streets on a route linking several of Lisbon’s historic neighbourhoods.