| 11/27/2004 | The Times readers chose the bicycle over electricity, the computer, and vaccinations as the country's greatest invention of the past 250 years. In the final round of the poll the bicycle won with an overwhelming 62 percent of the total vote. A panel of five experts convened by The Times to deliver their own verdict on Britain's most significant technological breakthrough all picked the bicycle at the bottom of the list of finalists.
Dr Sharp said that the bicycle was a worthy winner, though his own first choice was the computer and world wide web. "It has to be a result of a well-organised campaign, but we should accept it nonetheless," he said. There is something to be said for an invention that generates such passionate positive feeling. The bicycle is a very pure invention, the basic design has remained largely the same for more than a century, it is environmentally friendly, and it changed the face of mass transport."
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