The ancestral home of the Schneider family is in the German state of Bavaria. The name Schneider is an occupational hereditary surname, a type of surname that was taken from a word describing or common to the profession of the original bearer. It is a name for a person who worked as a tailor.
The first mechanically-propelled, two-wheeled vehicle may have been built by Kirkpatrick MacMillan, a Scottish blacksmith, in 1839, although the claim is often disputed.
The earliest bicycle was a wooden scooter-like contraption called a  celerifere; it was invented about 1790 by Comte Mede de Sivrac of  France.   In 1816, Baron Karl von â¦ Drais de Sauerbrun, of Germany, invented a  model with a steering bar attached to the front wheel, which he  called a Draisienne.AKEMILAN in 1842 Comte de Sivrac invented the bicycle in 1791. He was a nobleman who  lived in France and needed an efficient way of transportation. The German Baron Karl Drais von Sauerbronn invented the Laufmaschine or Running Machine, a type of pre-bicycle.