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By Alfred Duane Tietjen

ISBN-10: 144216333X

ISBN-13: 9781442163331

recovery is a voyage of non-public discovery that starts off with the kept provenance of an outdated bicycle, one of many earliest changeable-gear bicycles. “Family fortune misplaced” is the surviving remnant of the oral heritage from this darkish bankruptcy in his grandfather’s existence. Sparked by way of the ephemera and the is still of that bicycle, a national look for components is undertaken, and a recovery is began.

The path of the inventor and his grandfather’s enterprise companions is picked up, in addition to outdated components, interval images and records. The bicycle’s position in historical past, and the keenness of outdated bicycle creditors are all a part of this curious tale. because the writer digs, lengthy forgotten files look, and deeper meanings floor besides outdated elements.

RESTORATION is an exciting tale with insightful observations that attach a course of failure and loss a hundred years in the past to good fortune and restoration via numerous generations of the author's relatives. throughout the seek, he unearths parallels among a century-old company failure and his personal deteriorating health and wellbeing because of advancing MS. whereas he attempts to recuperate mentally and bodily, he reveals energy remembering his parent’s and his grandfather’s existence stories and struggles.

Includes greater than sixty five interval pictures, patent drawings, and files accrued through the seek.

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