William Murdoch
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William Murdoch was a Scottish chemist, inventor, and mechanical engineer.
William Murdoch
Murdoch's model steam carriage
Murdoch's steam locomotive model
Close up of plaque on wall of Murdoch House
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
William Murdoch
…1790s, which could be the source of this story. A fact important to the later development of the steam locomotive by others was that, in 1797 and 1798, Richard Trevithick came to live in Redruth next door to the house where William Murdoch lived (1782 to 1798). Trevithick would have seen and been influenced by Murdoch's…
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