Albert Tolman

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Albert Tolman was an American blacksmith and carriage maker who lived in Worcester, Massachusetts and is said to have invented the rickshaw around 1848 for a missionary. There are however numerous other theories of the origin of the rickshaw, as explained in History of the Rickshaw.

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