The steam engine
the first steam engine in America was imported here from England in 1753 and was used in a mine in new jersey to pump out the water so hey could dig deeper. But much later American inventors found different uses for hem such as saws that could cut through a hundred feet in 12 hours. But the most famous was being used in trains because the first on could power a rain and passenger up to 18 miles an hour.
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