Tools catalogued and evaluated for what they do, where (and if) they stop, and how easily you can give them up.
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1871–1890 · Superseded
Moved one rider fast and far. A pedalled front wheel of forty to sixty inches, sized to the rider’s leg, carried the rider farther on each turn. A good rider could cover more than a hundred miles in a day.
1867–1870 · Superseded
Once upon a time, what it did was move one rider faster than walking, by pedals attached directly to the front wheel. It was the first bicycle with pedals; its makers called it a velocipede, and riders named it for the uncomfortable ride.
1913–1955 · Superseded
Treats illness and injury with a growing set of remedies that work: antitoxins, insulin, sulfa drugs, penicillin, vaccines, and safe surgery.
until 1913 · Superseded
Offers care from a trained physician to people who are ill or injured, at a time when the training could not yet promise a treatment that worked.
