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Eliason builds the snowmobile
Sayner, Wisconsin
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Carl Eliason, whose flat feet kept him off snowshoes, bolted a Johnson outboard motor to a toboggan with skis in the Sayner general store in 1924 and patented the motor toboggan in 1927, the machine every snowmobile descends from. The prototype sits in the little museum by the family store. Wisconsin now grooms more snowmobile trail miles than it has state highways. The name was already taken: Virgil White had patented a Model T conversion called a snowmobile in New Hampshire in 1917.
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