The design credited with widespread mass adoption in the 1860s, which preceded the modern safety bicycle, was developed in Paris by whom?
Answer
Pierre Michaux and his son Ernest
The widespread adoption of the bicycle is usually credited to Pierre Michaux and his son Ernest in Paris during the 1860s, using their front-wheel crank-driven design, often called the boneshaker.
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