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Richard Trevithick
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 early age. He 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 railw…
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science · British inventor and mining engineer (1771–1833) · inventor · mining engineer · engineer · railway engineer · locomotive designer · explorer · also Richard Trevithick, Trevithick
Born 13 April 1771 · Died 22 April 1833 · Q217157
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2023· 1 entry
The owners of the Trewithen Estate planned to redevelop their farm, which will also involve returning the historic Trevithick steam engine to its original location within the farm
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2011· 1 entry
searchenginewatch: Richard Trevithick Inventor Of Steam Locomotive Gets Google Doodle
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2008· 1 entry
MLive: Memories of fallen soldier Richard Trevithick still make family smile
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1981· 1 entry
And delivered to the Welsh Industrial and Maritime Museum in Cardiff
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1932· 1 entry
By Prince George, Duke of Kent, in front of a crowd of thousands of local people
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1930· 1 entry
For automotive traffic, and the tunnel under the Hong Kong Harbour were also submerged-tube designs
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1857· 1 entry
With the gravestones being removed in 1956–57
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1843· 1 entry
The delays being due to problems with funding
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1833· 1 entry
Died 1833-04-22.
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1832· 1 entry
Designed a massive column to be 1,000 feet (300 m) high, being 100 feet (30 m) in diameter at the base tapering to 12 feet (3
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1831· 1 entry
Trevithick gave evidence to a Parliamentary select committee on steam carriages
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1830· 1 entry
Invented an early form of storage room heater
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1829· 1 entry
Built a closed cycle steam engine followed by a vertical tubular boiler
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1818· 1 entry
And Trevithick soon returned to Cerro de Pasco to continue mining
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1813· 1 entry
Uville set sail again for England and, having fallen ill on the way, broke his journey via Jamaica
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1812· 1 entry
Installed a new 'high-pressure' experimental condensing steam engine at Wheal Prosper
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1811· 1 entry
Draining water from the rich silver mines of Cerro de Pasco in Peru at an altitude of 4,330 metres (14,210 ft) posed serious problems for the man in charge, Francisco Uville
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1810· 1 entry
A wreck near Margate was raised in this way but there was a dispute over payment and Trevithick was driven to cut the lashings loose and let it sink again
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1809· 1 entry
Trevithick worked on various ideas on improvements for ships: iron floating docks, iron ships, telescopic iron mast, improved ship structures, iron buoys and using heat from the ships' boilers for cooking
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1808· 3 entries
Trevithick entered a partnership with Robert Dickinson (businessman), a West India merchant
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For two and a half years lodging first in Rotherhithe and then in Limehouse
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Trevithick publicised his steam railway locomotive expertise by building a new locomotive called Catch Me Who Can, built for him by John Hazledine and John Urpeth Rastrick at Bridgnorth in Shropshire, and named by Davies
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1805· 1 entry
To drive a tunnel under the River Thames at Rotherhithe
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1804· 1 entry
Built what was likely the first locomotive to have flanged wheels
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1803· 3 entries
Trevithick sold the patents for his locomotives to Samuel Homfray
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One of Trevithick's stationary pumping engines in use at Greenwich exploded, killing four men
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Dubbed the London Steam Carriage, which attracted much attention from the public and press that year when he drove it in London from Holborn to Paddington and back
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1802· 4 entries
Trevithick took out a patent for his high-pressure steam engine
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The Coalbrookdale Company in Shropshire built a rail locomotive for him, but little is known about it, including whether or not it actually ran
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Forcing water to a measured height to measure the work done
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Trevithick built one of his high-pressure steam engines to drive a hammer at the Penydarren Ironworks in Merthyr Tydfil, Mid Glamorgan
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1801· 1 entry
On a site near present-day Fore Street in Camborne
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1771· 1 entry
Born 1771-04-13.
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