It is surely not easy to determine when the first conveyor belt was made.
A better question would probably be: When did somebody put something on a transmission belt to bring it from A to B?
Those days the carcass was made of a high number of cotton plies.
The photograph shows a worker at his conveyor belt at the beginning of the 20th century.
One story is that Oliver Evans in 1795 described "a broad endless strap of thin pliant leather revolving over two pulleys in a case or trough". Maybe this was the start?
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