engines. And then in 1805 Evans constructed a 20 -ton steam dredge for the City of
Philadelphia, called the "Orukter Amphiboles" or the Amphilibios Digger. It was the the
first vehicle to move under its own power across the streets of Philadelphia. In 1807 Isaac
de Rivaz of Switzerland put a patent on a trolley powered by a primitive gas engine.
In 1815 Colonel John H. Stevens received a charter from the state of New Jersey
to build the first American railway.
Later in 1825 Thomas Blanchard completed one of the first few operable steam
carriages of the United States in Massachusetts. It was able to drive forward and in
reverse, steer and climb up hills. In 1826 Samuel Brown put a patent on a
"gas-and-vacuum" engine, which would climbed Shooter's Hill in London. And John
Stevens completed a circular track in Hoboken. And then in 1829 Goldsworthy Gurney's
steam carriage traveled from London to Bath. This was the first long travel for a
1832, officals in Fredericksburg, Virginia and Troy, New York, began to build
improved road ways for the steam carriages to drive on. 1835, a steam wagon is built in
Vermont, and demonstrated by an unknown inventor. And then in 1837, Thomas
Davenport patented an electric motor.
Later in 1844 Stuart Perry, from New York, constructed an internal combustion
engine, using turpentine as fuel. It was patented in 1844 and 1846, and had a two-cycle
method of operation. In 1847 Moses G. Farmer of Massachusetts built a locomotive
powered by forty-eight Grove electrical cells of one-pint capacity each. That then became
the first electrical powered land carriage.
In 1851 the American Steam Carriage Company is established in New York City.
However, the business failed a few years later. And then in 1853, Eugenio Barsanti and
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