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I think the wording kind of gives it away. I don't think cars or other vehicles would be described as "horseless carriages", but rather "gas-powered carriages"
by aweisman 10y ago
I think the wording kind of gives it away. I don't think cars or other vehicles would be described as "horseless carriages", but rather "gas-powered carriages" or something that suggests what replaces the horse.
- kragen 10y ago"Horseless carriage" was actually a common term from about 1895: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=horseless+carriage&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Chorseless%20carriage%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=horseless+carr...