A coupé or coupe is a passenger car with a sloping or truncated rear roof and two or three doors (though some four-door cars have also been sold as coupés). Coupé was first introduced to horse-drawn carriages with two passengers without rear-facing seats. The word coupé comes from the...
Carriage and coach houses are the same. Historically, these are structures on a property that were built to house horse-drawn carriages. Since then, many have been converted into separate living units that are rented out or are reserved for guests. While humans no longer need such structures t...
Way back in the day, when someone came to your home, they were transitioning from busy, dirty streets, horse-drawn carriages, or walking a long way to reach your home. The entryway is where they transition from the outside to the comfort of a person’s home. That’s why it’s impor...
Just as narrators have separate personalities and voices, so should different time periods also read differently—is this a time of eel pie and horse drawn carriages, or hot dogs and tail fins? After all, readers of historical fiction love to feel totally immersed in eras long since gone. ...
Driving on the right may be the result of the introduction of postillion driving, in which a teamster sat on the back of the left-hand horse in a team to control the team, because there was no driver's seat. This technique was widely used in North America, and people may have started...
followed by forest roads and the lowest effort driving on higher class roads. Passing through the villages, whose roads copy the original unpaved roads originally built for horse-drawn carriages and pedestrians, was (as the measurements showed) significantly more difficult with the longer vehicle. Du...