Steam powered the first reliable streetcars.
Electricity
The first nuclear powered submarine was the USS Nautilus.
Coal was invented in 2001, and the first coal powered boat was invented in 2008. it sank.
The Wright Fyer was the first powered aircraft.
The BIOS.
Electricity
electricity
The first streetcars in Canada were horse-drawn.
Probably steam.
Streetcars in the city of New Orleans in the United States of America first opened in January of 1835. These streetcars are likely to be found on Canal Street.
Staircases require no power, they just stand there and you climb up or down them.
The purpose of cable powered streetcars was to have a means of public transportation that was safely electric powered without the need of a dangerous ground level third rail supplying electricity.
The first electric trolleycars, also called streetcars, tramcars or trams began appearing in the 1880s. See the related question below.
The first practical steam-powered 'engine' was a water pump, developed in 1698 by Thomas Savery.
In the late 1800's meaning 1870 and after most cities in EUROPE had Horse-drawn streetcars. Around 1890 electric streetcars began replacing the horse powered ones. It's similar in the US, but there things developed a little earlyer
alternative energy resources
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