Here’s the Motor Toboggan the first Eliason snowmobile invented by Carl Eliason in 1924. The snowmobile was hand built by Carl using the parts from Ford Model T cars and his first model was sold for $350.

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Have you seen the world’s first camera? Yes, picture above. It is currently being display at the Capital Museum in Beijing China through May 21th, an exhibition that presents the history of photography through Nicephore Niepce museum collections.
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Have you seen the old Apple Mac commercial before? Here’s one from the 80’s, titled “Macintosh Nightmare” video after the jump.
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Wow, this is the world’s first computer mouse created by Douglas Engelbart in the year 1964. The mouse comes with two gear-wheels positioned perpendicular to each other. In 1970, Douglas received a patent for the “X-Y Position Indicator for a Display System”.

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Did you know that hard disk were the size of cargo container when it first comes out? Yeah, the picture above is taken in the year 1956. Disks with multi-million byte capacity have been used since 1956, long before there were standard binary prefixes.

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Animal powered transportation, the Cynosphere. In the year 1875, this tricycle was built in France, it was powered by two dogs. The development of this weird vehicle soon stopped when The Society for the Protection thought it was cruel.

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