When did we find out that horses needed shoehorses?
When it was a cobblestone street it must have been very slippery.
How did we find out how to put them on horses without hurting them, like with nails and the scrapping?
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Cobblestones and hard surfaces will wear through a horse’s hoof. People who owned horses noticed this.
Anyone who owned a horse probably had to pull thorns or other such things out of their horse’s hooves. So it would have been well-known that hooves aren’t very sensitive and you can drive nails into them e.g. to attach horseshoes
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