Peddling Bicycles to America: The Rise of an Industry by Bruce D. Epperson

By Bruce D. Epperson

This financial and technical background of the early American bicycle makes a speciality of the the most important interval from 1876 to the start of global struggle I. It appears quite on the existence and profession of the industry’s most vital character in this period, Albert Augustus Pope. After turning into enamored with English high-wheeled bicycles in the course of a trip to the Philadelphia World’s reasonable in 1876, Pope quickly all started paying Hartford, Connecticut’s Weed stitching desktop corporation to make his personal model of high-wheeler, the “Columbia,” the 1st to be synthetic in the USA in major numbers. A decade later, Pope received out that corporation, and ten years after that, Hartford’s Park River used to be coated with 5 of Pope’s factories. This ebook tells the tale of the Pope production Company’s meteoric upward thrust and fall and the expansion of an round it.

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