In the 1870s, an invention called the pedespeed was developed. The pedespeed was something you could strap on your legs. Each leg would have strapped to it a wheel about a foot and a half tall. With one on each leg, you could wheel through town. Luckily, the much safer rollerskates were invented as a substitute.
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