________________________________________History of the Streetcar
in 1827 they invented the omnibus which was the first street car but pulled by horses and had no rail on ground to run on. America used these until around 1905
around 1832 there was the first street car that was running and that was in Broadway. the second was in new orleans. The street car was pulled by horses but was on rails.
The first attempt to make machine do the work was in 1873 the idea of a cable on the tracks, that pulled the train. It was invented in 1890. after this horses was done pulling street cars b/c cable on track pulled it
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