Invisible Bicycle ― Parallel Histories and Different Timelines

Historians of technology explore discourses and materialities of the bicycle, the political and economic shaping of the bicycle, and the bicycle in the practices. Expanding earlier conference papers or presenting results of new research, they consider such topics as the historical production of the invisible and visible bicycles, rethinking bicycle histories, making the bicycle Dutch: the development of the bicycle industry in the Netherlands 1860-1940, betting on the wheel: the bicycle and Japan's post-war recovery, and modernizing the bicycle: the international human-powered vehicle movement and the bicycle renaissance since the 1970s. Annotation ©2018 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Tiina Mannisto-Funk, Ph.D. (2014) is a historian of technology currently working as a researcher at the Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. She has published on bicycle history in Technology and Culture, Transfers, ICON, Cycle history, Tekniikan Waiheita and edited volumes.

Timo Myllyntaus (Ph.D. 1989, LSE, UK) is Professor of Economic and Social History at Turku School of Economics, Finland. He has published extensively on history of technology and environmental history. His edited volumes include Thinking through the Environment (Cambridge 2011).