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Timeline; 1716

Swedish designer and philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg created the first design for an air cushioned vehicle. The design was essentialy an upturned dingy with oar-like air scoops to force the collected air beneath the hull.

It had to be scrapped due to the limitation of being human powered. However a sucessfull design was done in 1959.