History A-Level
Design innovation
What Design innovation means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Design innovation
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
The Rover Safety Bicycle had a low, diamond frame, two equal-sized wheels, chain drive to the rear wheel and pneumatic tyres from 1888.
Topics that use Design innovation
- Paper 3, Option 34.1: Industrialisation and social change in Britain, 1759–1928: forging a new society - 4 John Kemp Starley: cycles, cycling clubs and emancipation, 1885–1901 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Clarion Cycling Clubs
- Fashion and modernity
- Gender and emancipation
- Industrial growth
- Leisure pursuits
- Opposition and controversy
- Social and cultural change
- Social emancipation
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