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020 $a9780786447800 (softcover : alk. paper)
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050 00 $aHD9993.B543$bU534 2010
082 00 $a338.4/76292272097309041$222
100 1 $aEpperson, Bruce D.,$d1957-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2010025043
245 10 $aPeddling bicycles to America :$bthe rise of an industry /$cBruce D. Epperson.
260 $aJefferson, N.C. :$bMcFarland & Co.,$c[2010], ©2010.
300 $avii, 294 pages :$billustrations ;$c26 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $g1.$tI Was Not a Bad Boy, Only Mischievous -- $g2.$tColonel Pope Goes to Hartford -- $g3.$tThe Great Patent Wars -- $g4.$tBuilding the Mass Market -- $g5.$tThe Coming of the Safety Bicycle -- $g6.$tReading, R̀iting, R̀ithmetic and Roads -- $g7.$tThe Great Bicycle Boom -- $g8.$tThe Motor Carriage -- $g9.$tTroubled Times -- $g10.$tThe Bicycle Trust -- $g11.$tPicking Up the Pieces -- $g12.$tAfter Pope -- $g13.$tAll Gone to Their Account -- $g14.$tThe Long Road Home.
520 1 $a"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."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aBicycle industry$zUnited States$xHistory.
852 00 $boff,bus$hHD9993.B543$iU534 2010