The 19th-Century Freakout Over Steam-Powered Buses
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2017-08-31 18:17
These salvos were part of a battle between old-fashioned horses and high-tech steam: horse-drawn omnibuses, from which we get our modern word “bus,” had been the public transportation standard, but now the steam-powered bus threatened to take their place. And that would not do.