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By Deborah Hayes


There are many ways one could travel. Most of the time, people will uses cars get around roads, boats if going on water, and plane if going to farther distances. Going through snowy terrain may be the most dangerous. Because of low slippery it is and unpredictable footing, areas that are filled will ice and snow will be hard without anything happening. A lot of things could happen as well, for example an avalanche could drop anytime and multiple individuals maybe hurt during a snow mountain excursion.

Since decades ago, people have wanted to travel on top of snow to make it easier. The development of vehicular technology and advancement for snowmobiles have helped in thinks like traveling through winters. Allegan County snowmobile trail is where multiple vessels travel through on snowy days and through harsh icy conditions. These enables travel to be much faster and easier then before.

In the long history on engineering, the snowmobile started out with patents being made for engines that it was going to posses later on. The early known prototypes had tank tracks built into them for its purpose of trekking through awful icy surfaces and unfavorable conditions. Thanks bad winters in rural villages, normal mail deliveries could not be made until the inception of vehicles that can progress in snow.

Cross country traveling in winter was a near impossible task due to how dangerous roads could be. If the temperature dropped enough, the car or truck would be buried by amount of ice roads have, especially if the place to be visited is a rural area were snow is known to gather in droves. So vehicles that could overcome this dilemma was in development during the early 20th century to help winter countries thrive.

Ice vehicles were eventually developed to carry two people. The change in machines were that two person tracked vessels is powered by gas engines that allowed them to carry sleds. It began with low speeds that depended on how thick and bad conditions were. The terrains and obstacles also played a role on how well traveling with the sled can be.

The origins of how this machine came to be goes back centuries. The development of it though can not be credited to given out to a single individual alone. The technology to build it look time and multiple parts were combined in order to finally make a prototypes for the desired snowmobile that has on production.

Wisconsinites have had their own history in production as well. They have, for years, experimented on different prototypes to get the results that is desired. They began with converting tractor parts for its treads and added skis for control purposes. A different prototypes was introduced later on, a two cylinder engine from a motorcycle that would be placed in a long frame for more speed and an added ski for steering the machine well.

In Boston, a novel production was introduced to the public. During 1905, Boston companies had give the public a type of snowmobile that had a body frame that was a sleigh. It also had an engine that could be mounted on and helps it run well. Unfortunately, sales were very low and production was ceased on 1906.

1909 saw Russians produce the Aerosani. This was predominately used by the soviets against the Germans during world war two. It was also convenient for Russia had cold environment and its thudras were harsh. Many have debated calling this one as an snowmobile though, as it does not uses treads to travel.




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