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"What television does is rent us friends and relatives who are quite satisfactory. This is quite something, to rent artificial friends and relatives right inside the house."
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![]() Science fiction writers were not the first to think of (or make!) electric cars; see the discussion below.
In 1828, Ányos Jedlik, a Hungarian, created a tiny model car powered by an electric motor of his own invention. In 1834, a Vermont blacksmith named Thomas Davenport installed his newly created DC motor in a small model car which ran on a short circular electrified track. Electric vehicles (with 2,3 and 4 wheels) were in wide use in Europe in the late 19th century.
In the early part of the 20th century, electric vehicles enjoyed considerable popularity in larger cities, where the limited battery life (and thus available mileage) was offset by the advantages of clean, quite operation.
It was these advantages over the smelly, noisy automobile that gave science fiction writers like Astor a reason to create utopian transportation systems that idealized the electric car. Comment/Join this discussion ( 1 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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