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Teen Invents Snowmobile

  • January 31, 2014
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

In 1922, when Canada’s Joseph-Armand Bombardier was 15, he fixed a broken car engine and attached it to a propeller and a sled. Presto! An early snowmobile. He later created the Ski-Doo and founded a global company that makes snow vehicles, plus trains, planes, and more.

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