[Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Snowmobile"

Fri Jun 13 15:57:50 UTC 2025

Snowmobile (OED 1931)

1904 Lewiston (Maine) Saturday Journal 3 Sept. 14/4 (Newspapers.com)

Local motorists will doubtless be glad to learn that there is now an opportunity for them to auto to the snow ... The invention is a snowmobile and the inventor is a Maine man, by name Ned McIntire of Fryeburg.

Fred Shapiro

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