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To view keyboard shortcuts, press question mark View keyboard shortcuts Messages Home Explore Notifications Messages Grok Bookmarks Communities Premium Verified Orgs Profile More Post bloc @monkbloc Article Reply See new posts Conversation thiccy @thiccyth0t state of the machine 110 176 1.1K 158K In the 1800s horses supplied roughly half of all mechanical labor in the US. Horses let farmers work ten times more farmland, hauled transit cars, freight, and mail. In the 1880s, a quarter of US cropland grew oats and hay to feed the nation’s biological engines. By 1920 there were 27 million horses in the US and more than 1.3 million pounds of manure that needed to be shoveled off of the streets of New York City every single day. But internal combustion gasoline engines, most famously Ford’s Model T, began to replace horses. One car equalled four horses, never slept, and spared cities the sanitation issues of manure and urine. Once gasoline engines replaced the demand for horsepower, farmers
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