Trevithick, Richard
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Trevithick, Richard (1771–1833). Cornish engineer and inventor. A mine engineer from 1790 before erecting his first engine at Ding Dong (1795), he developed high‐pressure, non‐condensing engines from 1797 to patent both in 1802. His attainments include demonstrating the first practical steam carriage at Camborne (1801) and locomotive at Penydarran (1804); a hydraulic engine and plunger pump for mines (1798); a steam barge (1805); iron storage tanks and iron ships (1808–9); a near‐complete Thames tunnel (1809); a Cornish boiler and engine (1812); a portable agricultural engine (1812); a screw propeller (1815); and a tubular boiler (1816). Bankrupt in 1811, mining ventures led him to South America, 1816–27. He died the employee of a Kentish foundry.
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Richard Trevithick's First Steam Carriage December 24th, 1801. (Months Past).(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: History Today; 12/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...thirty-year-old inventor Richard Trevithick. The `giant of steam' in...one (which Anthony Burton, Trevithick's biographer, describes as...which set rival engineers free. Richard Trevithick's engine was cast at Harvey...
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Richard Trevithick: Giant of Steam
Magazine article from: Mechanical Engineering; 5/1/2003; ; 379 words
; Richard Trevithick: Giant of Steam. Anthony Burton. Trafalgar Square Publishing...95. In 2001, railway enthusiasts celebrated the bicentenary of Richard Trevithick's "Cornish engine," the world's first self-propelled steam...
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 "Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)")
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Genius with a stature to match his mind ; Richard Trevithick was born in 1771 in a cottage a mile or so from Dolcoath Mine, where his father was a mine captain.
Newspaper article from: Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK); 4/22/2008; 452 words
; Richard Trevithick was born in 1771 in a cottage a mile...Cornwall's tin and copper mines. Trevithick's inventive mind was never still...and for tunnelling under the Thames. Trevithick's career spanned the dawn of the...
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Richard Trevithick-Maverick Genius of Steam, Kew Bridge Steam Museum, London. (Exhibitions).
Magazine article from: The Engineer; 8/9/2002; ; 321 words
; Richard Trevithick-Maverick Genius of Steam, Kew Bridge Steam Museum, London. Celebrating the life and work of Richard Trevithick, first to develop a self-propelled vehicle or 'car' in 1801. Until 30 Sept. 020 8568 4757, www.kbsm.org.
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Image of Cornishman's steam railway 'a fake' ; An "historic" drawing of the earliest passenger railway built by the Cornish engineer Richard Trevithick has been criticised as a forgery.
Newspaper article from: Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK); 6/14/2008; 525 words
; ...built by the Cornish engineer Richard Trevithick has been criticised as a forgery...the only reliable images of Trevithick's railway were likely to have...Two centuries ago, genius Richard Trevithick revolutionised society with...
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 "South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)")
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Who is Richard Trevithick?(News)
Newspaper article from: South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales); 7/15/2004; 364 words
; n Richard Trevithick was born in 1771 in Illogan, Cornwall; n While working for the Ding Dong mine in Penzance he created a high-pressure engine...
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Bring trevithick home ; After watching the BBC's excellent programme on the Devoran to Portreath railway and its recognition of Richard Trevithick as the true founder of railways and the industrial age, I wonder how many Cornish people agree with me that it is time his earthly remains are reinterred in Truro Cathedral instead of a pauper's grave in Kent. Shall we start a campaign?
Newspaper article from: Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK); 3/31/2009; 317 words
; After watching the BBC's excellent programme on the Devoran to Portreath railway and its recognition of Richard Trevithick as the true founder of railways and the industrial age, I wonder how many Cornish people agree with me that it...
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 "Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)")
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Trevithick's a hit with Mr Pop.(News)
Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); 2/23/2004; 700+ words
; ...tonne diesel locomotive as the Richard Trevithick, after one of his heroes from...engine designed by the Cornishman Trevithick pulled 10 tons of iron and 70...experiment to a halt. Much of Trevithick's revolutionary engine design...
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Trevithick celebrations.(News)
Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); 2/27/2003; 409 words
; ...year's 200th anniversary of Richard Trevithick's pioneering steam locomotive...the original tram road where Trevithick's iron horse hissed and groaned...Cuneo's celebrated painting of Trevithick's journey. They were commissioned...
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Tribute as 30 steam engines follow in trevithick's tracks up Camborne hill
Newspaper article from: Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK); 4/30/2007; 426 words
; ...the weekend to pay tribute to Richard Trevithick. A Cornish-born pioneer of the industrial revolution, Trevithick invented a high pressure steam...West Cornwall, on Saturday. Trevithick Day is held every year in the...
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Richard Trevithick
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Richard Trevithick , 1771-1833, British engineer and inventor, b. Cornwall. He is...used in Wales on a railway, the first vehicle to be so operated. Trevithick also developed steam engines for use in mines and invented a steam...
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Trevithick, Richard
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Trevithick, Richard (1771–1833) English engineer. In 1801, he built a steam-powered road vehicle. In 1802, Trevithick patented a high-pressure steam engine , his most important invention...
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Trains and Railroads
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...soft wooden tracks. In 1767, Richard Reynolds of Coalbrookdale, England...British engineer and inventor Richard Trevithick (1771 – 1833) built...tons of iron and 70 people. Trevithick used an artificial draft through...
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Industrial Revolution
Encyclopedia entry from: UXL Encyclopedia of Science
...by James Hargreaves in 1764), the water frame (Richard Ark-wright, 1769), the spinning mule (Samuel...type vehicles powered by steam engines. In 1803, Richard Trevithick (1771 – 1833) built a "steam carriage...
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Automation
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...Industrial Revolution of the early eighteenth century. Many of the steam-powered devices built by James Watt, Richard Trevithick, Richard Arkwright, Thomas Savery, Thomas Newcomen, and their contemporaries were simple examples of machines capable...
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