Garage Doors History
Posted by Marylou Biederman in Garage
You may not be a fan of history but there is no harm in learning a bit of garage doors. As you well know there was no need for garage doors long ago as there were no cars to park them and people did have no requirement for storage spaces.
The idea of garage succeeded the invention of cars. Most people acquired cars and need for storage space for the automobiles. This was the classic definition of necessity being the mother of inventions. The only outbuildings in those days were used as storage carriages for horse and buggy. A carriage was a bit similar to today’s garages in that it was used as a storage unit for everything that was used for transportation. When people first acquired cars they use to store them next to their horses.
The initial kinds of garages were similar to the modern parking lots found in most homes today. With need the number of cars increased and this led to the expansions of these garages and creation of garage doors. In those days there were privately owned garages and privately owned ones that people paid a little money in order to park their cars in them. Just like todays clopay residential garage doors, there were varying kinds of doors.
After the first idea of a garage door many people started thinking of ways of creating their own garages closer home where they can park their cars safely. The origin of the word garage is attributed to a French word ‘garer’ which means to shelter or offer protection.
Afterwords people started becoming creative and this led to the invention of sliding tracks for garage doors. This led to the design of different kinds of garage doors. Better garage doors popped up and more space was created with the creation of garage doors that required minimal space to operate.
Nowadays you can find all sorts of garages and garage doors that can suit any kind of home. People also started using garages as storage spaces other than that of storing cars. This made the garages more versatile.
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