Richard Trevithick

Some entries are longer than others, such as that on the unknown, yet prolific, geniuses David Hughes and Richard Trevithick of Cornwall.

Around that same period, Richard Trevithick of Cornwall, England was also experimenting with the practicality of improving the performance of the high-powered steam engine.

He emphasizes their life stories over their achievements, and arranges profiles chronologically, which feature engineers from Western and Eastern Europe and the US, and include Pierre-Paul Riquet, Thomas Telford, John Rennie, Richard Trevithick, George Stephenson, Charles Babbage, John Ericsson, Gustave Eiffel, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Hertha Ayrton, Nikola Tesla, Heinrich Hertz, Wilbur and Orville Wright, Wernher von Braun, and Edith Clarke.

James probably attended the first demonstration of Richard Trevithick's steam train in London in 1808, and was quick to see where the future lay.

In 1804, Richard Trevithick built the first steam engine.

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Richard Trevithick or perhaps, the Scottish engineer, Thomas Telford.

McGowan draws on several sources, including the letters and personal documents of the main characters, to create a narrative full of personal detail; not only do we learn about how the steam locomotive developed into a machine capable of performing the tasks set to it during the Rainhill locomotive trials, we also learn, for example, that Richard Trevithick and Davies Gilbert spent a day verifying that a vehicle could be propelled by its wheels (something that had never been tried before) and how Trevithick came to assist Simon Bolivar in his military endeavours.

1804 - British engineer Richard Trevithick demonstrated the first steam engine to run on rails.

On February 21, 1804, Richard Trevithick ran an engine from Merthyr Tydfil to Abercynon.

The inventor was Richard Trevithick, the son of a Cornish mine captain who successfully converted his steam-powered traction engines from road to rail.

Richard Trevithick's engine was cast at Harvey's foundry in Hayle and assembled at a blacksmith's shop near Redruth.

This is probably a relative of the Richard Trevithick (1771-1833) who played a major role in the development of the steam engine, perhaps one of his four Sons" (p.

It occurred to a British inventor, Richard Trevithick (1771-1833), that what was needed was iron rails on which the wheels would fit and along which they could move, a railroad.

A biographical comedy that tells the story of Richard Trevithick, the man who revolutionised the use of steam but who was as much an artist and a magician as he was an engineer.

He traced the origins of steam transportation to Britain in 1804, with Richard Trevithick building a steam driven locomotive.