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This time the role Hungarian researchers and inventors played in the development of transportation is surveyed. In this field Hungary can boast of several great scientists and designers. The first who should be mentioned in this respectably large company is the anonymous inventor of the carriage. Few people know that the first four-wheel sprung carriage was crafted in Kócs, a small village in Komárom county at the turn of the 14th century. Unlike the usual carts of that time, this carriage was suspended on vertical straps and later on springs. The Hungarian word for the carriage kocsi from the name of the village Kócs, has spread all over the world and been adopted by many languages such as English (coach), German (Kutsche) or French (coche).