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- Boy on Mechanical Velocipede, 1870 - Toy makers have long experimented with ways that toys could simulate human and other real-life action. Key-wound clockwork mechanisms, mass produced by the late 1800s, revolutionized the toy world. In this toy, when a key is wound, the mechanism mounted between the wheels causes the boy's legs to pedal, moving the velocipede forward.
- 1870
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Boy on Mechanical Velocipede, 1870
Toy makers have long experimented with ways that toys could simulate human and other real-life action. Key-wound clockwork mechanisms, mass produced by the late 1800s, revolutionized the toy world. In this toy, when a key is wound, the mechanism mounted between the wheels causes the boy's legs to pedal, moving the velocipede forward.