Aus der Kategorie „alternative Fahrzeuge“: das Ziegenmobil, das um 1900 von einem Ziegenhalter in Columbus, Ohio, entwickelt wurde und das sich offensichtlich nicht gegen Pferdekutschen durchsetzen konnte.
“A progressive citizen of Columbus, Ohio, anxious to emulate his more wealth neighbors in possessing an easy-going conveyance—and being possessed of one large he-goat, of whose electromotive force much has been printed, and more has been thought—conceived the scheme of harnessing the force in such a manner as would make it most easily controlled. Inability to protect the goat by letters patent or a copyright, leaves the invention open, so that whomsoever will may copy it.”
(via Vintage everyday)