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Railways were introduced in the seventeenth century as a way to move heaviy cargo.
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Steamboats were a private business at the outset. The first attempts at steamboat building were by Americans John Fitch and James Rumsey in the 1790's.
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First time steam trains rolled over the railways in early 1800s to the modern times when bullet trains carry thousands of passengers with incredible speeds and freight train carry large amount of goods.