Columbia Bicycles was, we consider, the primary bicycle manufacturing plant established in America, in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1977. Albert Pope, the founder, was of the actual striver sort who flourished within the late nineteenth century. He’d been a Lt Col within the Union Army, then set his sights to enterprise and trade following the battle.
Pope noticed his first bicycle on the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. Sensing a enterprise alternative, he hightailed it to Europe to learn the way the bikes had been made, then returned dwelling and shortly after opened Columbia Bicycles.
“An Ever Saddled Horse That Eats Nothing” he was stated to exclaim when he realized the bike’s transportation potential. Pope was big in spreading the attraction of bikes by making them lighter and simpler to pedal, advertising and marketing them to girls and kids, not simply mustachioed dudes sitting excessive on their penny farthings.
Anyway, how nice is that this advert? And, 1,404 miles in 6 days? In the 1870s? Holy smokes.
