the earliest steam engine is used in 1727
The oldest known self propelled vehicle is the 1769 Cugnot Steam Tractor.
The first built steam train is generally credited to George Stephenson, who designed the locomotive called the "Locomotion No. 1" in 1825. It was used on the Stockton and Darlington Railway, which is considered the world's first public railway to use steam locomotives. However, prior to this, the first steam-powered vehicle was created by Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot in 1769, but it was not a train in the modern sense.
steam boats and steam trains use coal power
Ferdinand Verbiest, a Belgian Jesuit, invented a steam-powered vehicle in 1672, which is often considered one of the earliest concepts of a car. His design utilized a steam engine to create motion, powered by boiling water. The vehicle was small, intended as a toy for the Chinese emperor rather than a practical mode of transportation. Although it was never built for use, Verbiest's work laid the groundwork for future developments in automotive technology.
Before steam engines came into use, travel on land was mostly powered by horse. On water, it was mostly powered by wind.
A water-powered factory did not create pollution and could only operate near water, but a steam-powered factory did create pollution and could operate anywhere on land
The first railroads were in mines as plateways and then railways in the 1700's. The first railways used stationary engines, people, and horses for power. The steam-engine was adapted for use on iron rails early in the 19th century, and the first steam-powered passenger railway was opened in 1825.
The first to use a steam engine to drill for oil was Edwin Drake. In 1859, he successfully drilled the first commercial oil well in Titusville, Pennsylvania, utilizing a steam-powered drilling rig. This pioneering effort marked the beginning of the modern petroleum industry. Drake's innovation significantly increased the efficiency of oil extraction, laying the groundwork for future developments in the field.
The very first self-powered road vehicles were powered by steam engines and by that definition Nicolas Joseph Cugnot of France built the first automobile in 1769. Most history books say that the automobile was invented by either Gottlieb Daimler or Karl Benz? It is because both Daimler and Benz invented highly successful and practical gasoline-powered vehicles that ushered in the age of modern automobiles. Daimler and Benz invented cars that looked and worked like the cars we use today. However, it is unfair to say that either man invented "the" automobile. The vehicle Cugnot invented did not look or work like a modern automobile, but never the less it was a self-powered vehicle, and therefore an automobile, and it was the first.
Other to coal I suppose you mean. Burning of any fuel like oil, wood, etc. Nuclear reactors. I suspect solar energy would make steam. It would be possible to use natural steam from deep in the ground.
The first steam engines used for pumping water out of mines.
Ice: for cooling drinks water: to drink and for baths steam: sauna's and steam rooms (also steam powered trains and boats back in the olden days)