Horsey Horseless

The Horsey Horseless was an early automobile created by Uriah Smith, a Seventh-day Adventist preacher, and inventor,[1] in Battle Creek, Michigan. It contained a wooden horse head and neck attached to the front of the car, intended to make it resemble a horse and carriage so it would not frighten horses on the road. This vehicle is known to have been invented in 1899, but it is unknown whether or not it was ever built. The horse head was hollow, also serving as the fuel tank. It is on Time Magazine's worst car list.[2]

Patent diagram of Horsey Horseless

See also
  • Skeuomorph, a derivative object that retains ornamental design cues from structures that were necessary in the original

References
  1. Alex Davies (10 Feb 2015). "Well That Didn't Work: The 1899 Car With a Full-Size Wooden Horse Head Stuck to the Front". WIRED. Retrieved 6 November 2019.
  2. "1899 Horsey Horseless". Time magazine. 2008. Archived from the original on September 10, 2007. Retrieved 2008-12-08. Somewhere between an early car and the head-in-the-bed scene in The Godfather, the Horsey Horseless, the brainfart of inventor Uriah Smith of Battle Creek, Mich., was intended to soothe the skittish nerves of our equine servants.
  • Bulen (January 25, 1957). "Horses and Cars" (PDF). Cass City Chronicle. Cass, MI. p. 3.
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