A stained glass window in memory of Richard Trevithick, the famous Cornish inventor and engineer who was known as the 'father of the locomotive engine', was presented to Westminster Abbey by the ...
In 1801 Richard Trevithick built the first steam locomotive ... This clip is from the series The Genius of Invention. This clip would be ideally suited to showing students the significant ...
Richard Trevithick’s design had a boiler but this was removed to make the internal combustion engine. The German inventor Nicklaus Otto developed the first four stroke engine in 1876.
The first of all* was an iron behemoth designed by the great engineer Richard Trevithick ... that (as is often the case in the history of invention) a rival claim may have got there first.