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
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
Steam engine
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A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. The steam engine uses the force produced by steam pressure to push a piston back and forth inside a cyli
Richard Trevithick
…was an early pioneer of steam-powered road and rail transport, and his most significant contributions were the development of the first high-pressure steam engine and the first working railway steam locomotive. The world's first locomotive-hauled railway journey took place on 21 February 1804, when Trevithick's…
JŽ 06-018 steam locomotive, in Ljubljana, Slovenia
A model of a beam engine featuring James Watt's parallel linkage for double action
A mill engine from Stott Park Bobbin Mill, Cumbria, England
A steam locomotive from East Germany