Excerpt from The World on Wheels
The Earliest allusion to wheel-carriages is found in the Book of Genesis, where Pharaoh commands his prime minister, saying, "Take you wagons [chariots?] out of the land of Egypt, for your little ones and for your wives, and come." More than thirty-five centuries have since passed away, during which carriages, under a multitude of forms, have rendered man important service, either in business, for his comfort, or at his decease. More than this, they have served as thermometers in recording the rise or fall of civilization in every stage of its progress. To point out how they have persistently pushed their way through opposition from fierce enmity to present popularity has been a potent incentive to the compilation of this volume.
Several attempts have heretofore been made to write the history of carriages, generally limited in the treatment, or chiefly confined to mechanical instruction, of very little interest to general readers.
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