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Richard Trevithick, (born April 13, 1771, Illogan, Cornwall, Eng.—died April 22, 1833, Dartford, Kent), British inventor of the first steam locomotive. With little formal education, in 1790 he became an engineer for several ore mines in Cornwall. In 1797 his experiments with high-pressure steam led him to develop a small, light engine to ...
Richard Trevitick ritratto eseguito da John Linnell nel 1816 British Science Museum, Londra. Richard Trevithick (Tregajorran, 13 aprile 1771 – Dartford, 22 aprile 1833) è stato un inventore e ingegnere britannico
Richard Trevithick ( Tregajorran, 13 de abril de 1771- Dartford, 22 de abril de 1833) fue un inventor e ingeniero inglés constructor de máquinas, que desarrolló la primera locomotora de vapor capaz de funcionar. Fue uno de los primeros pioneros del transporte por carretera y ferrocarril a vapor, y sus contribuciones más significativas ...
Vida pregressa. Trevithick nasceu em Illogan, Cornwall, em 1771, filho de uma família mineira da Cornualha. Apelidado de "O Gigante da Cornualha" por sua altura - ele tinha 1,82 m, notavelmente alto para a época - e por sua constituição atlética, Trevithick era um lutador e esportista talentoso, mas um estudioso inacabado.
Richard Trevithick's Penydarren locomotive of 1804 is not recorded as exploding. The full-size live-steam conjectural reconstruction of the Penydarren locomotive which was built by Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales in 1981 is displayed at the National Waterfront Museum at Swansea, where it is periodically demonstrated in steam - see the museum website for details (https://museum.wales ...
Richard Trevithick 1804 Penydarren. On 21 February 1804, the world’s first ever railway journey ran 9 miles from the ironworks at Penydarren to the Merthyr-Cardiff Canal, South Wales. It was to be several years before steam locomotion became commercially viable and hence the claim that Richard Trevithick and not George Stephenson was the real ...
Trevithick’s final locomotive was exhibited on a circular track in London, but it attracted little attention. The inventor then devoted his time to improving the stationary steam engine. The date of the London locomotive was 1808, and from then till 1810 Trevithick remained in that city, full of energy and ready to turn his hand to anything in the way of engineering.
