Sayner, Wis. (WMTV) -On this day, November 22, 1927, the first snowmobile patent was granted. And, of course, it was a northern Wisconsin man who made it happen.

Carl Eliason is from the small town of Sayner. You can see the original 1925 snowmobile at the Vilas County Historical Museum.

Eliason had a club food and he tried all kinds of equipment to get out in the woods, nothing was working, so he made it himself.

After years of refining his so called “Motor toboggan,” he finally got the patent for the first modern snowmobile and made 40 f them.

Top speeds were at a roaring two-point-five horsepower.

He sold the design after getting an order for 200 machines from Finland.

There were other machines that could travel on snow, but it’s said Eliason’s was the first to represent a true sn

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