There are many reasons , few of them are : better efficiency, less weight to power ratio that means they are also used where less power transmission is required, absence of heat exchangers and condensors etc make it less expensive
Charter Gasoline Engine company is credited for first using a gasoline tractor that they built in 1887. However there was a steam powered machine used in logging before the gasoline engine. It is not considered a tractor.
diesel and gasoline engines
cart + combustion engine = car steam engine + gasoline = combustion engine boiler + coal = steam engine
Someone who doesn't want to burn gasoline. A steam engine has the ability to use anything that will burn. Had the technology been applied to steam engines like it was to gasoline engines, we possibly would have some viable steam engine transportation today. Steam engines were less efficient than gasoline or diesel engines, that is why they are not used much today.
Steam driven machines are extremely non efficient. Gasoline machines are'nt much better
tool + wood= wheel, wheel + wood = cart, cart + combustion engine= car if you don't have combustion engine it's boiler+coal= steam engine, steam engine + gasoline = combustion engine.
The gasoline engine was needed because the steam engine was too large and heavy for anything smaller than a train or a large boat. Everyone was trying to invent a smaller, lighter power source.
What kind of engine? There's steam, gasoline, diesel, 4 stroke, 2 stroke.
Most basic difference: The automobile engine is overwhelmingly a gasoline engine. Rail engines were steam at first, and today are either diesel or electric. To my knowledge, there has never been a gasoline railroad locomotive.
in 1860, Belgian Jean Joseph Etienne Lenior developed a gas powered engine that worked similar to a steam engine but with gasoline instead of steam. this was the first engine that was produced in large numbers
Charter Gasoline Engine Company of Sterling, Illinois, for first successfully using gasoline as fuel. Charter's creation of a gasoline fueled engine in 1887 soon led to early gasoline traction engines before the term "tractor" was coined by others. Charter adapted its engine to a Rumley steam-traction-engine chassis, and in 1889 produced six of the machines to become one of the first working gasoline traction engines.
watt's steam engine