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Who imported English bicycles into the U.S through Philadelphia in 1876?

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Colonel Albert A. Pope saw them exhibited at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876. Intrigued, he imported English bicycles before creating in 1878 the Pope Manufacturing Company ...

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