Comment by adverbly

I always find it interesting to think about bicycles and just how recently they were invented.

Compare bicycles with steel making, for example. Steel making happened thousands of years ago. The modern bicycle was what - under 200 years ago?

Bikes seem like such a primitive technology, and yet as this article demonstrates, it takes a lot of engineering to design even primitive products.

It makes me wonder how many other simple or primitive products are out there which have yet to be discovered.