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Mannheim (, Palatine German : " Monnem " or " Mannem ") is a city in the southwestern part of Germany , the third - largest in the German state of Baden - Württemberg after Stuttgart and Karlsruhe . Mannheim is among the twenty largest cities in Germany , with a 2015 population of approximately ___MASK69___ , 000 inhabitants . The city is at the centre of the larger densely populated Rhine - Neckar Metropolitan Region which has a population of 2 , ___MASK89___ , 000 and is Germany ' s eighth - largest metropolitan region . France , officially the French Republic , is a country with territory in western Europe and several overseas regions and territories . The European , or metropolitan , area of France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea , and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean . Overseas France include French Guiana on the South American continent and several island territories in the Atlantic , Pacific and Indian oceans . France spans and had a total population of almost ___MASK7___ million people as of January 2017 . It is a unitary semi - presidential republic with the capital in Paris , the country ' s largest city and main cultural and commercial centre . Other major urban centres include Marseille , Lyon , Lille , Nice , Toulouse and Bordeaux . Movable Type is a weblog publishing system developed by the company Six Apart . It was publicly announced on September ___MASK95___ , 2001 ; version ___MASK59___ . 0 was publicly released on October ___MASK20___ , 2001 . The current version is ___MASK79___ . ___MASK95___ . 2 . India , officially the Republic of India (" Bhrat Gaarjya "), is a country in South Asia . It is the seventh - largest country by area , the second - most populous country ( with over ___MASK59___ . 2 billion people ), and the most populous democracy in the world . It is bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south , the Arabian Sea on the southwest , and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast . It shares land borders with Pakistan to the west ; China , Nepal , and Bhutan to the northeast ; and Myanmar ( Burma ) and Bangladesh to the east . In the Indian Ocean , India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives . India ' s Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia . Its capital is New Delhi ; other metropolises include Mumbai , Kolkata , Chennai , Bangalore , Hyderabad and Ahmedabad . The dandy horse is a human - powered vehicle that , being the first means of transport to make use of the two - wheeler principle , is regarded as the forerunner of the bicycle . The dandy horse was invented by Baron Karl Drais in Mannheim , Germany , and patented in France in February ___MASK24___ ( Badenian privilege in January ___MASK24___ ). It is also known as a Laufmaschine ( Drais ' own terminology , German for " running machine "), the official designation velocipede , or draisine ( a term now used primarily for light auxiliary railcars regardless of their form of propulsion ), and in its French form draisienne . A typewriter is a mechanical or electromechanical machine for writing characters similar to those produced by printer ' s movable type . A typewriter operates by means of keys that strike a ribbon to transmit ink or carbon impressions onto paper . Typically , a single character is printed on each key press . The machine prints characters by making ink impressions of type elements similar to the sorts used in movable type letterpress printing . At the end of the nineteenth century , the term " typewriter " was also applied to a person who used a typing machine . After its invention in the 1860s , the typewriter quickly became an indispensable tool for practically all writing other than personal handwritten correspondence . It was widely used by professional writers , in offices , and for business correspondence in private homes . By the end of the 1980s , word processors and personal computers had largely displaced typewriters in most of these uses in the Western world , but as of the 2010s the typewriter is still prominent in many parts of the world , including India . Karl Drais ( April ___MASK52___ , ___MASK33___ -- December 10 , 1851 ) was a German inventor , who invented the Laufmaschine ( `` running machine '' ) , also later called the velocipede , draisine ( English ) or draisienne ( French ) , also nicknamed the dandy horse . This incorporated the two - wheeler principle that is basic to the bicycle and motorcycle and was the beginning of mechanized personal transport . Drais also invented the earliest typewriter with a keyboard in 1821 , later developed into an early stenograph machine , a meat grinder , and a wood - saving cooker using a hay chest . Karl Drais ( ___MASK36___  10 December 1851 ) was a German inventor , who invented the Laufmaschine (" running machine "), also later called the velocipede , " draisine " ( English ) or " draisienne " ( French ), also nicknamed the dandy horse . This incorporated the two - wheeler principle that is basic to the bicycle and motorcycle and was the beginning of mechanized personal transport . Drais also invented the earliest typewriter with a keyboard in 1821 , later developed into an early stenograph machine , a meat grinder , and a wood - saving cooker using a hay chest .