Kirkpatrick Macmillan, widely credited as the inventor ... Writing in the late 19th Century, however, James Johnston had no such doubts. "The word 'bicycle' means, of course, properly speaking ...

"Kirkpatrick Macmillan (1813 - 1878) was a blacksmith at Courthill Smithy, Keir, on the Drumlanrig estate of the Duke of Buccleuch in south west Scotland. Around 1839 he fitted pedal operated ...

KIRKPATRICK Macmillan lived a largely ordinary life and died in relative obscurity. But this Dumfriesshire blacksmith was responsible for one of the greatest inventions of the Victorian age - the ...

A new 250-mile coast-to-coast cycling route across Scotland is to be named after a 19th century blacksmith who was a bike-building pioneer. Kirkpatrick Macmillan, born in Kier in Dumfries and ...

It has been named in honour of Kirkpatrick Macmillan, the 19th century Dumfriesshire blacksmith who invented the first pedal-driven velocipede. The route will be up and running in the summer ...

Not content with this pedestrian pace, Kirkpatrick Macmillan came up with a solution. The Dumfries and Galloway-based blacksmith had seen the rise of the velocipede (imagine an adult-sized balance ...

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Kirkpatrick Macmillan, widely credited as the inventor ... Writing in the late 19th Century, however, James Johnston had no such doubts. "The word 'bicycle' means, of course, properly speaking ...