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At some point around 3500 B.C. in Mesopotamia, wheels were added to sleds to make the first carts.
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the first know arriage was useed in warfare
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Around 1300 B.C. the bit was invented: a piece of metal placed between the horse’s teeth that can be manipulated using leather straps called reins to command the horse. this made it easyer to control where the horse goes
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In the 15th century, carriages were made lighter and needed only one horse to haul the carriage. This carriage was designed and innovated in Hungary. Both innovations appeared around the same time and historians believe that people began comparing the chariot branlant and the Hungarian light coach
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At first coaches were used only by the rich. Coaches for hire were introduced in London as early as 1625,
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At first coaches were used only by the rich. Coaches for hire were introduced in London as early as 1625
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One of the most important types of specialized horse-drawn vehicles was the firefighting wagon. most city buildings and houses were made primarily of wood, and light and heat were generally provided by some sort of open flame.Hundreds of structures caught fire every year.Fighting fires was a major, effort, and firefighters depended on horses. Every city fire-fighting brigade kept a team of horses in special stalls within the firehouse
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an Amish man went to junkyards and found VW brakes, cleaned them up and retrofitted them to buggies; these were the first "manufactured" brakes
