ANT376H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter Clay: Stagecoach, Horsecar
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1830-60: american - mobility resolution (new transportation technology) Minimize number of prime movers - develop larger houses. 3 criteria: reasonable price, fixed schedules, predetermined route. Abram buwer: intracity stagecoach in nyc (rear entry and length wide seats) John stephenson: designed and constructed rail car (4 horses, 30 passengers) More availability of horses - special breeding. Jack lauson: lighter 12-seat vehicles (new orleans) - one horse, one man. Customary uses of streets: socializing, common place for working class neighborhoods. Petition in philly that streetcars would invade public spaces. Vehicles = microcosm of social interaction and conflict (friction) Horse = machine and source of transforming power.
