alt Hacker NewsThis is a fun piece... but what killed off the horses wasn't steady incremental progress in steam engine efficiency, it was the invention of the internal combustion engine.
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pcrh • yesterday at 5:30 AM
Quite. For reference, the horse population of France didn't decline significantly until the late 1940's [0].
According to Wikipedia, the IC engine was invented around 1800 and only started to get somewhere in the late 1800s. Sounds like the story doesn’t change.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_combustion_engine