Was the bus invented before the car?

Not bad: The number of passengers that could be accommodated in and on the Benz Omnibus of 1895 was eight. Nine years after the automobile first saw the light of day, Carl Benz created the first bus, on the basis of his four-wheeled Benz Patent Motor Car, the Victoria.



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Before the invention of trains and automobiles, animal power was the main form of travel. Horses, donkeys, and oxen pulled wagons, coaches, and buggies. The carriage era lasted only a little more than 300 years, from the late seventeenth century until the early twentieth century.

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Unless a city has the budget and the demand for a set-in-stone rail line, a bus system is the more economical choice. The rail systems of the early 20th century peaked in popularity around 1910, but by 1930, over 230 rail companies had either gone out of business or converted to buses.

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The word bus is short for omnibus, which means “for everyone.” Bus was first used in this sense in the 1830s, its everyone meaning referencing the fact that anyone could join the coach along its route, unlike with stagecoaches, which had to be pre-booked.

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'Train' comes from a French verb that meant to draw; drag. It originally referred to the part of a gown that trailed behind the wearer. The word train has been part of English since the 14th century—since its Middle English days.

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The Lake Moeris Quarry Road is recognized as the oldest surviving paved road in the world. Dating from the Old Kingdom period in Egypt, it transported basalt blocks from the quarry to a quay on the shores of ancient Lake Moeris.

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Busses and buses are both English terms. Busses is predominantly used in ???? American (US) English ( en-US ) while buses is predominantly used in ???? British English (used in UK/AU/NZ) ( en-GB ). In the United States, there is a 85 to 15 preference for buses over busses.

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When the word bus was new, the two plurals were in competition, but buses overtook busses in frequency in the 1930s, and today is the overwhelming choice of writers and editors. Busses was the preferred form in Merriam-Webster dictionaries until 1961.

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Words that do rhyme with bus are usually spelled with a double s, like fusses or trusses. Until 1961, 'busses' was the preferred plural of 'bus' in Merriam-Webster dictionaries. But the word 'buss' is a synonym of 'kiss'. Perhaps it's just as well that 'buses' took over.

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