ROBERT HARDMAN found it’s one thing to get a penny-farthing moving and another to stop at lights!
Only when you stand next to one of these things do you appreciate what an astonishing prospect this must have been for Victorian Britain. Here is the man-made equivalent of the bumblebee: a mathematically absurd, fundamentally flawed design that cannot possibly work — and then does. What’s more, in the space of an hour, I … Read more