| Show UNKNOWN GENIUS GAVE AMERICAN BUGGY TO WORLD many of our land transportation methods are 0 of european origin but the old family buggy Is distinctly american no one knows just who did build tile the first one according to carl W ot of the smithsonian institution who spent a lot of time looking the matter up but it was used in this auntry first of all ail american roads were extremely bad following the revolution some still are Q 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 raster faster too yankee ingenuity be de ned even then and about 1820 some smart fellow built the first light wagon and equipped it with springs thus we had our first wa w wagon on thus we had our first spring wag wagon from nv which our buggy was developed lei eloped then about 1840 somebody else wanted to go still faster and built the first one hoss boss shay and the gl gig the same tiling thing in a different form with two wheels in which the sports went rattling about at a groat great rate of speed of course the railroad pame came along about that time but you have to lay tracks for a buggy and it held its own throughout the nineteenth century until the auto finally just about put 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 in the national capital pathfinder magazine |
