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          Karl Drais © Prof. Dr. H. E. Lessing
          Drais' live mask 1818 © Prof. Dr. H. E. Lessing2017 marked the 200th anniversary of the two-wheeler invention.

          This is considered to be the big bang of personal mobility, since thousands of men sat on machines instead of horses for the first time and rode into the surroundings individually. Yet after worldwide prohibition of the running machines collective transport by the new railways stole the show from them.

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          The inventor came from a family of civil servants without landed property, but laid down his nobility titles during the Badenian Revolution to be merely citizen Karl Drais. After worldwide fame he was prosecuted from age 50 on by the authorities and monarchists for his democratic convictions culminating in an attempted murder.

          After his death monarchists made him and his invention look silly by starting tall stories in a purposeful manner.

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