These things - even according to official records - were around hundreds of years prior to the Wright brothers supposedly inventing aeroplanes in the early 1900s.

These comfortable, economical ways of travelling the world were being used everywhere.. Right up until one 'accident' and then they were removed from… Everywhere. Pretty convenient. Maybe this form of transport (long distance, relaxing comfortable travel) didn't fit in with the way the string pullers wanted the world and society to go.