This is the bike I am working on, right now it has invisi-wheels.
A fun fact I found out while looking for pictures of this type of bike is that it is called a penny farthing because it looked like a quarter and a penny put together. It is also called a high-wheeler for obvious reasons. This type of bike became popular after the boneshaker (the first type of bike to have pedals) but lost popularity around 1880 once the safety bicycle came out. The safety bike was touted for being a lot safer than the penny farthing, and is very close to the design of bikes we use today.
I can't imagine falling off of a penny farthing, it looks like a long way down.