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Annie Cohen Kopchovsky, Nelly Bly Jr. Occupation. Businesswoman. Notable work. Circumnavigated the globe on a bicycle. Annie Cohen Kopchovsky (1870 – 11 November 1947), [ 1 ] known as Annie Londonderry, was a Jewish Latvian immigrant to the United States who in 1894–95 became the first woman to bicycle around the world.
The L.A.W., a national organization for cyclists, was founded in 1880 and actively defended the rights of cyclists [3] until 1902, when the League became dormant. In the 1930s, Dick Wilson, a bicycle industry representative, invited members of the Evanston Bicycle Touring Club to become the first chapter of the inactive L.A.W. Harmon, age 19, joined and immediately began recruiting new members.
The first verifiable claim for a practically used bicycle belongs to German Baron Karl von Drais Sauerbronn, a civil servant to the Grand Duke of Baden in Germany. Drais invented his Laufmaschine (German for "running machine") in 1817, that was called Draisine (English) or draisienne (French) by the press.
Kristen Faulkner (born December 18, 1992) [1] is an American racing cyclist, who rides for UCI Women's Continental Team EF–Oatly–Cannondale. [4] [5] She is the reigning USA National Road Race Champion [6] and won two gold medals in the women's individual road race and women's track cycling team pursuit at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Smith was born on May 1, 1907, in Greenville, Virginia, to Charlotte 'Lottie' Yarnell (née Hanby) and William Herman Smith and grew up in Washington, D.C. [ 5 ] Her father owned the Capitol News Company, distributing newspapers and magazines in the greater D.C. area. [ 6 ] She was the youngest of three daughters, the middle child dying in infancy.
Leah Goldstein. Leah Goldstein (born February 4, 1969, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) is a professional Canadian- Israeli road racing cyclist, former 1989 World Bantamweight Kickboxing Champion, and Israel's 1998 Duathlon champion. [1][2] In 2021, she became the first woman to win the overall solo division of the Race Across America ...
Personified Columbia in an American flag gown and Phrygian cap, which signifies freedom and the pursuit of liberty, from a World War I patriotic poster. Columbia (/ kəˈlʌmbiə /; kə-LUM-bee-ə), also known as Lady Columbia, Miss Columbia is a female national personification of the United States.
Henrietta Johnston was the first known female portrait painter in the American colonies as well as the first woman pastelist. [ 6 ] Elizabeth Timothy was the first woman to print a formal newspaper as well as the first female franchise holder in the colonies. [ 4 ] Jane Colden was the first woman botanist in America.