The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 07/10/17 23:48, Roger Hayter wrote:
I believe some
of the more inflexible sections of the 19th century population did
suspect something not quite natural, and a bit magical, about a vehicle
moving without being pulled or pushed.

I think we had horses for a millennia. They are self propelled.

As indeed we are ourselves. But I think primitive ideas of
'naturalness' made sense to people and self-propulsion was probably
regarded as an aspect of life rather than mechanics. It is hard to put
oneself into the mind of people who really see animals operating on
totally different physical laws to vehicles, but this may still be the
majority view?



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Roger Hayter