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England’s first tramcars began operation, where horse-drawn carriages were hauled along steel trackwork

On the 23^rd March, 1861, England began using tramcars, when the streets of London were laid out with steel tracks for horse-drawn carriages with steel wheels to travel upon.

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One of the fathers of television, Vladimir Zworykin, despised what it had become, and once said of it, “I would never let my own children watch it.”

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England’s first tramcars began operation, where horse-drawn carriages were hauled along steel trackwork

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