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    Richard Trevithick (13 April 1771 – 22 April 1833) was a British inventor and mining engineer. The son of a mining captain, and born in the mining heartland...
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  • (1864–1939), New Zealand politician Paul Trevithick (born 1959), American inventor, engineer and entrepreneur Richard Trevithick (1771–1833), British inventor,...
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    Dolcoath mine in Cornwall, England. In partnership with his cousin Richard Trevithick, the inventor of the "high pressure" steam engine, and the entrepreneur...
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    Sir Richard Trevithick Tangye[needs IPA] (24 November 1833 – 14 October 1906) was a British manufacturer of engines and other heavy equipment. Richard Tangye...
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    railway steam locomotive was built in the United Kingdom in 1804 by Richard Trevithick, a British engineer born in Cornwall. This used high-pressure steam...
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  • For Trevithick's Pen-y-darren locomotive, see Richard Trevithick. Penydarren is a community and electoral ward in Merthyr Tydfil County Borough in Wales...
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    display within the church is a brass plaque commemorating the work of Richard Trevithick, the pioneer of steam propulsion, who, at the end of his career, lived...
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    The Trevithick Society is a registered charity named for Richard Trevithick, a Cornish engineer who contributed to the use of high pressure steam engines...
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    Ironworks in Merthyr Tydfil, Mid Glamorgan in south Wales. Designed by Richard Trevithick, the locomotive hauled five cars of iron for nine miles on that day...
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    used to drive mechanical farm machinery by way of a flexible belt. Richard Trevithick designed the first 'semi-portable' stationary steam engine for agricultural...
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    more than a century and existed until the end of the steam era. Richard Trevithick's Coalbrookedale (1802), Pen-y-Darren (1804) and Newcastle (1805) locomotives...
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    built a working model of a steam carriage in Redruth and in 1801 Richard Trevithick was running a full-sized vehicle on the roads in Camborne. During...
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    London and North Western Railway (LNWR). Born in 1812 as the son of Richard Trevithick, he began the study of civil engineering around 1832, and by 1840...
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    railway steam locomotive was built in the United Kingdom in 1804 by Richard Trevithick, a British engineer born in Cornwall. This used high-pressure steam...
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    Steam Carriage was an early steam-powered road vehicle constructed by Richard Trevithick in 1803 and the world's first self-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle...
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  • Derek Tangye. Their father was Richard Trevithick Gilbertstone Tangye [Wikidata], in turn the son of the engineer Richard Tangye. He was married to the...
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    expired in 1800, Richard Trevithick and, separately, Oliver Evans in 1801 introduced engines using high-pressure steam; Trevithick obtained his high-pressure...
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    the track. Francis Trevithick had a notable pedigree as a locomotive engineer, being the son of Cornish engineer Richard Trevithick. Francis had moved...
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    modified type of steam engine known as the Bull engine. Working with Richard Trevithick, many of these were installed in mines in Cornwall. Bull was born...
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  • strongly associated with the late career of steam engine pioneer Richard Trevithick. In 1832, he was invited by John Hall to work on a steam engine at...
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    steam engine or steam locomotive, built by Richard Trevithick, was demonstrated. Around 1811, Richard Trevithick was required to update a Watt pumping engine...
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    Tydfil - The Town of Steel". Historic UK. "Richard Trevithick's steam locomotive". Museum Wales. "Richard Trevithick". The Melting Pot. 24 January 2023. "Visit...
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    used for railway transport until the middle of the 20th century. Richard Trevithick built the first steam locomotive known to have hauled a load over...
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    were built in the 18th and 19th century, but it was not until after Richard Trevithick had developed the use of high-pressure steam, around 1800, that mobile...
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    problems with water supply and maintaining steam pressure. In 1801, Richard Trevithick built and demonstrated his Puffing Devil road locomotive, believed...
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    pressure above atmospheric pressure, as devised by Richard Trevithick in the 19th century. Trevithick's early "puffer" engines discharged steam into the...
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    Another proponent of "strong steam" at that time was the Cornishman, Richard Trevithick. His boilers worked at 40–50 psi (276–345 kPa) and were at first of...
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    carriage was a steam-driven vehicle demonstrated in London, England, by Richard Trevithick. In the 1820s, Goldsworthy Gurney built steam-powered road vehicles...
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    Catch Me Who Can (category Richard Trevithick)
    steam railway locomotive created by the inventor and mining engineer Richard Trevithick. It was an evolution of three earlier locomotives which had been built...
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    The first full-scale working railway steam locomotive was built by Richard Trevithick in 1802. It was constructed for the Coalbrookdale ironworks in Shropshire...
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