Both are vehicles where light weight is important, and man-made objects.
Pedal : Bicycle
Birds and airplane
It is for example: airplane, car, bus, boat, bicycle.
Wheel-and-axle, levers, inclined planes.
That would be stretching it too far. But the bicycle lead to the development of several light weight components whose technologies could be used in building aeroplanes.
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I guess they had a dream of a better way to get around than the bicycle. I am serious.
Boat? Car? Airplane? Truck? Jet? Bicycle? Train?
They built bicycles. This is why their airplane used bicycle parts (sprockets and chains) in the drive train between the engine and the propellor shafts.
Because they wanted to make money, just as they did with their bicycle business.
They created and invented the first successful airplane. They shrunk the size of Earth due to the fast transportation over-sea. They owned a bicycle shop.