John Harvey (ironfounder)
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John Harvey was a Cornishman whose career started as a blacksmith and engineer at Carnhell Green near Hayle, in west Cornwall. In 1779 he established a foundry and engineering works at Hayle called Ha
Simpson design waterworks beam engine by Harvey's of Hayle, Hereford Waterworks Museum
Crimean siege mortar made by Harvey's of Hayle
Richard Trevithick
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Richard Trevithick was a British inventor and mining engineer. The son of a mining captain, and born in the mining heartland of Cornwall, Trevithick was immersed in mining and engineering from an earl
John Harvey (ironfounder)
…employed more than 50 people and continued to grow as Harvey worked with many of the great Cornish engineers and entrepreneurs of the day. These included Richard Trevithick, William West, and, more importantly, Arthur Woolf. In 1797, Harvey's daughter, Jane, married Richard Trevithick. Harvey & Co. built up a reputation…
Portrait by John Linnell, 1816 (Science Museum, London)
Camborne Hill street name and plaque commemorating Trevithick's steam carriage demonstration in 1801
A drawing of the Coalbrookdale locomotive from the Science Museum
The London Steam Carriage, by Trevithick and Vivian, demonstrated in London in 1803