| Show UNKNOWN GENIUS GAVE AMERICAN BUGGY TO WORLD many of our land transportation methods are of european origin but the old family buggy Is distinctly american no one knows just who did build the first one according to carl IV of the SMIth smithsonian institution who spent a lot of time looking the matter up but it was used in this auntry first of all american roads were extremely bad following the devolution some still are and the only conveyances were the heavy wagons drawn by horses or oxen omen this was a very slow method of transportation about the best way to get any place was to cut across the hills and walk of course it if you were well to do and owned a horse and saddle that was faster too yankee ingenuity be de tied ned even then and about some smart fellow built the first light wagon 0 and equipped it with aprin sprin springs S thus we had our first wagon wagon thus we had our first spring wagon from which our buggy was developed then about 1840 somebody else wanted to go still faster and built the first one hoss boss shay and the ilie gig the same thing in a different form with two wheels in which the sports went rattling about at a great rate of speed of course the railroad came along about that time but you have to lily lay tracks for a buggy and it held its own throughout the nineteenth crith century until the auto finally just about put iut it out of bustness business the depression made a lot of folks get out their old buggies however so we still see a few of them around even vex in the national capital pathfinder magazine |
