TIL Susan B. Anthony once said that the invention of the modern bicycle "has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world" and called it the "freedom machine"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_bicycle#1880s_and_1890s



Submitted March 30, 2015 at 03:36AM by thisisalili http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/30qq0l/til_susan_b_anthony_once_said_that_the_invention/