Kirkpatrick macmillan biography sample

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          Kirkpatrick Macmillan

          Scottish blacksmith and inventor

          Kirkpatrick Macmillan (2 September 1812 in Keir, Dumfries and Galloway – 26 January 1878 in Keir) was a Scottish blacksmith.

          He is generally credited with inventing the treadle bicycle.

          Invention of the first pedal driven bicycle

          According to the research of his relative James Johnston in the 1890s, Macmillan was the first to invent the pedal-driven bicycle.[1][2] However, he didn't invent the modern bicycle pedals but rather adapted the treadle, known since the Middle Ages, to the draisine.

          Johnston, a corn trader and tricyclist, had the firm aim, in his own words "to prove that to my native country of Dumfries belongs the honour of being the birthplace of the invention of the bicycle".[3]

          Macmillan allegedly completed construction of a pedal driven bicycle of wood in 1839 that included iron-rimmed wooden wheels, a steerable wheel in the front and a larger wheel in the rear which was