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A.C. Carlton
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1954
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Although Cugnot in France (1769) and Oliver Evans in America (1805) had demonstrated the possibility of using steam traction on land, the first railroad pioneers had horse drawn traction in mind for their purpose. Horse drawn carts were running on rails in England and America before the first steam