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Peddling Bicycles to America
- The Rise of an Industry
Engelsk Paperback
Peddling Bicycles to America
- The Rise of an Industry
Engelsk Paperback

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This economic and technical history of the early American bicycle industry focuses on the crucial period from 1876 to the beginning of World War I. It looks particularly at the life and career of the industry''s most significant personality during this era, Albert Augustus Pope. After becoming enamored with English high-wheeled bicycles during a visit to the Philadelphia World''s Fair in 1876, Pope soon started paying Hartford, Connecticut''s Weed Sewing Machine Company to make his own brand of high-wheeler, the "Columbia," the first to be manufactured in America in significant numbers. A decade later, Pope bought out that company, and ten years after that, Hartford''s Park River was lined with five of Pope''s factories. This book tells the story of the Pope Manufacturing Company''s meteoric rise and fall and the growth of an industry around it.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
302
ISBN-13:
9780786447800
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
078644780X
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
15 jul 2010
Længde:
18mm
Bredde:
255mm
Højde:
177mm
Forlag:
McFarland & Co Inc
Oplagsdato:
15 jul 2010
Forfatter(e):
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