Fun fact: as early as 1803, Richard Trevithick (who would go on to invent the locomotive a couple years later) had already built a working prototype for a steam-powered carriage to take the place of horse-drawn carriages for transporting people around town; yet somehow, it failed to catch on the way his locomotives ultimately would. (That it accidentally set fire to the shed where he’d parked it and thereby destroyed itself as well while he and his pals were celebrating its successful test run down at the pub goes a long way toward explaining this…) In other words, an extremely early prototype for free-traveling automobiles actually came before locomotives and the railroads to carry them were a thing; Frank is not only late to the punchline, but way, way, way late!
Fun fact: as early as 1803, Richard Trevithick (who would go on to invent the locomotive a couple years later) had already built a working prototype for a steam-powered carriage to take the place of horse-drawn carriages for transporting people around town; yet somehow, it failed to catch on the way his locomotives ultimately would. (That it accidentally set fire to the shed where he’d parked it and thereby destroyed itself as well while he and his pals were celebrating its successful test run down at the pub goes a long way toward explaining this…) In other words, an extremely early prototype for free-traveling automobiles actually came before locomotives and the railroads to carry them were a thing; Frank is not only late to the punchline, but way, way, way late!