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Beaumont designs and builds wagon roads for English coal mines using heavy planks on which horses pulled carts and wagons.
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First steam engine in America is installed to pump water from a mine.
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The first commercially successful steam locomotives, using the Blenkinsop rack and pinion drive, commenced operation on the Middleton Railway.
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first bicycle was patented by Baron Karl Drais in Mannheim, Germany,
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first mechanicaly powered bicycle
The first mechanically-propelled 2-wheel vehicle was believed to have been built by Kirkpatrick MacMillan, a Scottish blacksmith. -
invention of the saftey bicycle
John Kemp Starley produced the first sucessful saftey bike -
French inventor Gustave Trouvé demonstrated a working three-wheeled automobile
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very first car
Benz "Velo" model first car -
ford model T 1927, regarded as the first affordable American automobile