Vintage 1939 Schwinn Bicycle Chalkboard
by Edward Fielding
Title
Vintage 1939 Schwinn Bicycle Chalkboard
Artist
Edward Fielding
Medium
Digital Art - Drawing
Description
note: the watermark in the lower right does not appear in the final print.
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Chalkboard drawing of a vintage 1939 Schwinn Bicycle Chalkboard by Edward M. Fielding - www.edwardfielding.com based on original patent drawing filed with the US Patent office.
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The Schwinn Bicycle Company was founded by German-born mechanical engineer Ignaz Schwinn (1860-1945) in Chicago in 1895. It became the dominant manufacturer of American bicycles through most of the 20th century and today.
Schwinn's new company coincided with a sudden bicycle craze in America. Chicago became the center of the American bicycle industry, with thirty factories turning out thousands of bikes every day. Bicycle output in the United States grew to over a million units per year by the turn of the 20th century.
The boom in bicycle sales was short-lived, saturating the market years before motor vehicles were common on American streets. By 1905, bicycle annual sales had fallen to only 25% of that reached in 1900.
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