What was the horse and buggy era like?

Answer 1

The horse & buggy era was more advanced than we actually assume now. People used a fairly good vocabulary, they had long haul railroads in America, Canada, & Britain, as well as in Germany and other parts of Europe. Horse drawn street cars on tracks. High rise buildings in large cities with

elevators starting from the time of Lincoln, phones in big cities in the 1890s. Photography was common after 1850. The telegraph crossed the Atlantic about 1860. They had flight with Gas Balloons, River steamboats, & steam engines in seagoing ships, even Battleships and early machine guns in the military. Strangely, very few people aside from the rich and soldiers knew how to ride a horse. They used simple buggies with the one horse they might own or share with their extended family. Things were made in factories out of metal with the same basic machines we use today. They had home gramaphone record players, 3D stereo parlor viewers, and even the first generation of movie theaters before many people owned a car, or road a bus to work.