No Slowpoke Toboggan
September 9, 2009
Today I’m on the trail of a story of two young inventors. In the winter of 1935, Carl Erikson, 15, and his brother Eric Erikson, 13, attached an odd-looking homemade motor to an odd-looking homemade kick sled, and invented a snowmobile. Far away in Valcourt, Quebec, a mechanic named Joseph-Armand Bombardier had invented a propeller-driven sled in 1922 when he was fifteen, but he didn’t come up with his famous successful design until 1937. The Erikson boys had never heard of a snowmobile, or seen a picture of one, when they built their super-sled in Dawson Creek. Here’s a picture of their invention. I wonder if it still works? If you have pictures of Carl or Eric when they were young, please contact me.
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