{"id":5571,"date":"2023-03-26T13:00:28","date_gmt":"2023-03-26T13:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/photold.org\/?p=5571"},"modified":"2023-03-26T13:00:28","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T13:00:28","slug":"a-man-preparing-to-test-his-flying-bicycle-invention-1890","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/2023\/03\/26\/a-man-preparing-to-test-his-flying-bicycle-invention-1890\/","title":{"rendered":"A man preparing to test his flying-bicycle invention, 1890."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='booster-block booster-read-block'><\/div><p>In 1890, a man named John Townsley was preparing to test his daring new invention &#8211; a flying-bicycle. Townsley had spent two years perfecting the contraption, which incorporated the principles of a regular bicycle and a hot air balloon. On August 22nd, 1890, Townsley made his historic test flight. Although the flight was a success, Townsley&#8217;s invention never took off commercially.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Townsley&#8217;s pioneering spirit inspired generations of inventors and engineers, who continued to refine the idea of a flying-bicycle. Today, the concept has been reimagined as a viable transportation option for commuters, with several prototypes in active development.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/photold.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-26.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5572\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/photold.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-26.jpg?resize=720%2C720&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"image-26-jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-26.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-26.jpg?resize=80%2C80&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-26.jpg?resize=720%2C720&amp;ssl=1 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1890, a man named John Townsley was preparing to test his daring new invention &#8211; a flying-bicycle. Townsley had spent two years perfecting the contraption, which incorporated the principles of a regular bicycle and a hot air balloon. On August 22nd, 1890, Townsley made his historic test flight. Although the flight was a success, Townsley&#8217;s invention never took off commercially. Still, Townsley&#8217;s pioneering spirit inspired generations of inventors and engineers, who continued to refine the idea of a flying-bicycle. Today, the concept has been reimagined as a viable transportation option for commuters, with several prototypes in active development. <a href=\"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/2023\/03\/26\/a-man-preparing-to-test-his-flying-bicycle-invention-1890\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A man preparing to test his flying-bicycle invention, 1890.<\/span> r\u00e9szletei&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[35,2347,1892,2207,2348,2349],"class_list":["post-5571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-photo","tag-35","tag-flyingbicycle","tag-history","tag-invention","tag-johntownsley","tag-transportation","post_format-post-format-image","has-post-thumbnail","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5573,"href":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5571\/revisions\/5573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}