 Boos Myller's truck, 1647 GUE Rebecca Snoot's Car, 1647 GUE |
Equally as important to the life and economy of the late 14th or early 15th centuries was the invention of the automobile, forever freeing mankind from dependency upon the unpredictable horse or the stubborn wiskus beast.
Although several advanced war machines were produced by the inventor Thaddeus Kaine in the first half of the tenth century, such as the battle tank, none of these resembled the current automobile, nor did any manufacturing seem to have continued after his death.
TRIVIA:
- Although unnamed, automobiles had been known as early as 966 GUE, when an anonyomous peasant used the Phee Hourglass to travel into the distant future (~3000 GUE) where "strange mechanisms of metal and glass" were seen moving of their own accord across a rugged landscape strewn with glacial boulders and massive highways.
| SOURCE(S): Return to Zork, Zork Nemesis, A History of Quendor |