Joseph-Armand Bombardier was the owner of Bombardier Inc. , which invented the modern snowmobile .
Their company , Hetteen Hoist & Derrick Co. , became Polaris Industries. It was only in 1960 , when engines became lighter and smaller than before , that Joseph-Armand Bombardier invented what we now know as the modern snowmobile in its open-cockpit one- or two-person form , and started selling it under the brand name Ski-Doo .
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