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...
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...
Today, jazz is considered high art, America s national music, and the catalog of its recordings its discography is often taken for granted. But behind jazz discography is a fraught and highly colorful history of research, fanaticism, and the intense desire to know who played what, where, and when. This history gets its first full-length treatment in Bruce D. Epperson s "More Important Than the Music." Following the dedicated few who sought to keep jazz s legacy organized, Epperson tells a fascinating story of archival pursuit in the face of negligence and deception, a tale that saw curses and...
Today, jazz is considered high art, America s national music, and the catalog of its recordings its discography is often taken for granted. But behind...
