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The very Ingenious Mr Thomas Newcomen
Has made a cyllinder that pumps water out of coal mines. A piston would move up and down inside of it. Burning coal made this machine work. People called them fire engines.
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James Watt
Watt redesigned Newcomes pump. He made it a fraction of the size. -
Nicholas Joseph Cugnot
Cugont used steam engines in lumbering. A tree wheeled tractor was made for military use. And was considered the first ever car and the first ever car crashed into a brick building. -
Gasoline
The first car to be powered by gasoline was made byKari Friedrich Benz.
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U.S. car company
The Duryea brothers set up the 1st American Car company.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_automobile
