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.
In 1839, the Scottish blacksmith Kirkpatrick MacMillan invented the first pedal-propelled bicycle. MacMillan never patented his bicycle invention and it was copied by others. It was discovered that he was the inventor because of an accident reported in a Glasgow newspaper.