Facts about the Dred Scott Decision, one of the Causes of the American Civil War. Dred Scott Decision summary: Dred Scott was a slave who sought his freedom through the American legal system. The 1857 decision by the United States Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case denied his plea, determining that no Negro, the term then used to describe anyone with African blood, was or could ever be a citizen.
The first transport that resembled the modern bicycle was the running machine (Laufmaschine) invented in 1817 and patented in 1818 by Karl von Drais, a German Baron. The English name was the draisine, and it consisted of a seat between two wooden wheels, which one could push along, then coast.
The first American manufacturer of cycles begun with the Columbia Bicycle at the Weed Sewing Machine Company factory in Hartford, Ct. The first regular trade catalogue was twenty pages long. The first bicycles were the 60 High Wheelers and sold for $125.00 when sewing machines sold for $13.00.