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Penny pinching by St. James’s Place
In 1869, Eugène Meyer patented his 'high' pedal bicycle in France. In England, it soon became known as the pennyfarthing, since the size mismatch between the two wheels echoed the mismatch between the larger penny and smaller farthing. The latter coinage was killed off by inflation in 1960, to be…
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