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horseless carriage

[ hawrs-lis ]

noun

  1. an automobile:

    The horse and buggy were eventually replaced by the horseless carriage.



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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of horseless carriage1

First recorded in 1890–95
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A great many investors backed the wrong horseless carriages around a century ago and lost their money.

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Horse-drawn carriages are still everywhere, but there are also noisy horseless carriages, an invention so new there’s only recently a word for them: automobiles.

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So he decided to get into the “horseless carriage†business.

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Benjamin argues that “electric bike†is akin to “horseless carriage,†a transitional term for a novel technology that will almost certainly evolve into something else.

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Cars that burn alternative fuels — remember diesels converted to burn used French-fry oil? — have been around since the earliest days of horseless carriages.

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