Many people consider this to be the world's first car. In the early 1800s, Cornishman Richard Trevithick began building steam carriages with wobbly wheels. Around this time, Trevithick's American counterpart, Oliver Evans, built a steam-powered river shovel called the Oruktor Amphibolos, capable of running on land or water. Trevithick and Evans eventually turned to making steam trains, but another Cornish inventor, Goldsworthy Gurney, was convinced that the idea of ​​steam-powered road vehicles still had legs. He designed an early steam wagon that galloped on rickety keels, just like a horse. When Gurney realized that wheels could do the job much better, he built impressive steam buses and operated a service between London and Bath. Eventually he was driven out of business by horse-drawn stagecoaches, which were faster and faster.