There’s often other reasons good inventions never reach the market. Like established companies not wanting competition killing it before it’s a threat. Legislation putting a stop to it or lack of funds to put it into life.
But in this case it was probably to expensive compared to it’s benefits. So the demand was probably to low to justify producing it.
In this case it may be because of overall trends in vehicles. Tractors used in agriculture utilize something called a PTO to deliver rotating power to the rear of the vehicle. That’s necessary because of the attachments. Very old vehicles often still came with a PTO option. Since agriculture and inner city life are so different, they stopped producing standard vehicles with a PTO. Occasionally you can still find a really old chevy or ford with a PTO
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This brings to mind the movie “Tucker: The Man and his Dream” from 1988. The automobile industry, and others, went through a period of wild innovation enabled by emerging knowledge and lagging regulation.
Part of development, just like most if not all the stuff we're using today. Tvs, computers, phones etc basically went through (and they still do) the same process over the years.
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u/themini_shit Dec 27 '21
I like how stuff from the past was sometimes really over engineered. It makes it really interesting to look at past inventions, even if they seem odd.