The author's main purpose for presenting these events chronologically at the end of the chapter is to show the progression of inventions that took place in the bicycling industry. The timeline highlights the development of key innovations in bicycle manufacturing and design, illustrating how each invention builds on or contributes to the evolution of the bicycle over time.
Review the information in the graphic organizer based on Chapter 5 of Wheels of Change.
Chronology: 1. Colonel Albert August Pope's company produces the first high-wheeled bicycles in the United notes. 2. A. H. Overman of Chicopee builds the Victor Bicycle, a cycle with two wheels of equal size. 2. John Dunlop of Scotland invents the pneumatic tire, a rubber tire with an inner tube filled with compressed air. 4. Ignaz Schwinn and Adolph Arnold for Arnold, Schwinn Company, which would be the top American bicycle manufacture for much of the 20th century.
What is the author’s main purpose for presenting these events chronologically at the end of the chapter?
to list effects of the first high-wheeled bicycle produced in the United States
to show the progression of inventions that took place in the bicycling industry
to explain how the bicycle gained such intense popularity among women
to compare the inventions of different people from the same time period
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