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While Richard Trevithick managed to build his first steam locomotive in 1804, lack of marketing and the will to continue innovating enabled other inventors to step in and try their luck. In early 1800s he started working in a mine that had one of the early examples of stationary steam machines built by James Watt.
To achieve motive steam power would, for the first time in history, allow man to travel on land at a speed faster than that of the domesticated horse. Trevithick's Tramroad Locomotive. In 1802, Richard Trevithick patented a high pressure engine and created the first steam-powered locomotive engine on rails.Trevithick wrote on February 21, 1804, after the trial of his High Pressure Tram-Engine, that he carry'd ten tons of Iron, five wagons, and 70 Men...above 9 miles...in 4 hours and 5 Mints..merican inventors and engineers had been on a parallel course with the British and, as early as 1812, John Stevens had petitioned Congress to support a national railroad. He had also built the first American steam locomotive in 1825.