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- One-horse_shay abstract "The one-horse shay is a light, covered, two-wheeled carriage for two persons, drawn by a single horse. The body is chairlike in shape and has one seat for passengers positioned above the axle which is hung by leather braces from wooden springs connected to the shafts.The one-horse shay is a US adaptation, originating in Union, Maine, of the French chaise.The one-horse shay is colloquially known in the USA as a 'one-hoss shay'.A smaller and more lightly constructed version of the one-horse shay is called a chair or 'whiskey' because it can \"whisk\" around other carriages and pass them quickly. Another version of the 'whiskey', known as a 'whisky', is constructed exceptionally light in weight for the purpose of allowing it to be drawn by small ponies or light horses.Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. memorialized the shay in his satirical poem \"The Deacon's Masterpiece or The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay\". A fictional Deacon crafted this wonderful one-hoss shay in such a logical way that it could not break down. The shay was constructed from the very best of materials so that each part was as strong as every other part. In Holmes' humorous, yet \"logical\", twist, the shay endures for a hundred years (amazingly to the precise moment of the 100th anniversary of the Lisbon earthquake shock) then it \"went to pieces all at once, and nothing first, — just as bubbles do when they burst\". It was built in such a \"logical way\" that it ran for exactly one hundred years to the day.In economics, the term \"one-hoss shay\" is used, following the scenario in Holmes' poem, to describe a model of depreciation, in which a durable product delivers the same services throughout its lifetime before failing with zero scrap value. A chair is a common example of such a product.".
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- One-horse_shay wikiPageWikiLink 1755_Lisbon_earthquake.
- One-horse_shay wikiPageWikiLink Carriage.
- One-horse_shay wikiPageWikiLink Category:Carriages.
- One-horse_shay wikiPageWikiLink Chair.
- One-horse_shay wikiPageWikiLink Chaise.
- One-horse_shay wikiPageWikiLink Depreciation.
- One-horse_shay wikiPageWikiLink Oliver_Wendell_Holmes,_Sr..
- One-horse_shay wikiPageWikiLink Residual_value.
- One-horse_shay wikiPageWikiLink Union,_Maine.
- One-horse_shay wikiPageWikiLink File:Old_One_Horse_Shay.jpg.
- One-horse_shay wikiPageWikiLinkText "One-horse shay".
- One-horse_shay wikiPageWikiLinkText "one-horse shay".
- One-horse_shay wikiPageWikiLinkText "whiskey".
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- One-horse_shay subject Category:Carriages.
- One-horse_shay hypernym Light.
- One-horse_shay type Lighthouse.
- One-horse_shay type Carriage.
- One-horse_shay type Redirect.
- One-horse_shay type Vehicle.
- One-horse_shay comment "The one-horse shay is a light, covered, two-wheeled carriage for two persons, drawn by a single horse.".
- One-horse_shay label "One-horse shay".
- One-horse_shay sameAs Q7092312.
- One-horse_shay sameAs m.0fpkzb.
- One-horse_shay sameAs Q7092312.
- One-horse_shay wasDerivedFrom One-horse_shay?oldid=695940545.
- One-horse_shay depiction Old_One_Horse_Shay.jpg.
- One-horse_shay isPrimaryTopicOf One-horse_shay.