Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1898 — Stamped Bicycle Frames. [ARTICLE]

Stamped Bicycle Frames.

Bicycle frames stamped out in two halves by one operation from a steel plate are a recent Birmingham novelty. The halves are clamped together, and though the frame is not so elqgant as one made by another process it is perfectly rigid and can be made at a coat of $2 instead of $12.50. Of the 4,500 white laborers who built the Congo railway, 900 succumbed to the climate in two years. Of 7,000 black laborers, all but 3,500 died or deserted.