Richter’s Rocket Bike: When a daredevil attached rockets to his bicycle, 1930s

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In pre-war Germany in the 1930s, there was great interest in all kinds of rocket-propelled vehicles; cars, airplanes, boats, motorcycles, and skates (roller and ice). However, one of the strangest and least promising applications of rocket propulsion was by using one in a bicycle. In 1931, German engineer Herr Richter attached rockets to his bicycle […]

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