{"id":16338,"date":"2026-06-26T00:18:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T04:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=16338"},"modified":"2025-12-13T19:44:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T00:44:31","slug":"bicycle-was-patented-by-w-k-clarkson-jr-in-1819","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=16338","title":{"rendered":"Bicycle Was Patented by W. K. Clarkson, Jr. in 1819"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18147\" style=\"width: 208px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18147\" class=\"wp-image-18147 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Velocipede-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"Velocipede\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-18147\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Velocipede<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Bicycle was patented by W. K. Clarkson, Jr. of New York in 1819<\/strong>. Originally called a velocipede, the bicycle soon became a popular mode of transportation. The patent was destroyed in the 1836 patent office fire. In 2014 a billion bicycles were being used for business and fun. China accounts for 450 million of those bicycles. Children can learn more about bikes at: <a href=\"https:\/\/kids.nationalgeographic.com\/history\/article\/ten-fun-facts-about-bikes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bicycles<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bicycle was patented by W. K. Clarkson, Jr. of New York in 1819. Originally called a velocipede, the bicycle soon became a popular mode of transportation. The patent was destroyed in the 1836 patent office fire. In 2014 a billion bicycles were being used for business and fun. China accounts for 450 million of those <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=16338' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4509,1747,5663,1749,1748],"class_list":["post-16338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4509","tag-bicycle","tag-june-26","tag-velocipede","tag-w-k-clarkson-jr","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16338"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29524,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16338\/revisions\/29524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}