very very very very first snowmobile??

Question

ok.. was the first snowmobile invented by the SWISS or by a french man named Joseph Armand Bombardier? which came first?

Answer 1

Don't know what the Swiss had going on but the first United States patent for a snow-vehicle using the now recognized format of rear track(s) and front skis was issued to a R.H.Muscott of Waters, Michigan on June 27, 1916 with U.S. Patent # 1,188,981. Many individuals later modified Ford Model Ts with the undercarriage replaced with tracks and skis following this design. They were popular for rural mail delivery for a time. Polaris Industries in Roseau, Minnesota, in the United States Midwest, was a pioneer in the production of purpose-built snowmobiles.

Joseph armand Bombardier wasn't French, he was Canadian and he later modified the original track design to better accommodate more varied snow conditions. It was only in 1959, when motors became lighter and smaller than before, that Bombardier invented what we know as the modern snowmobile in its open-cockpit one- or two-person form, and started selling it as the "Ski-doo".