The locomotive steam engine can be traced back to an Englishman by the name of Richard Trevithick. At the turn of the 19th century, Trevithick created the first high-pressure steam engine.

The locomotive managed ... It was to be several years before steam locomotion became commercially viable, but there was no denying the fact that it was Trevithick and not George Stephenson who ...

The Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust says that the streets of Blists Hill Victorian Town will be filled with steam engines as ...

Way back in 1804, a British engineer named Richard Trevithick built the first railway engine, but steam locomotion would not take off in a big way until 1829 when inspired engineer George ...

Did you know that the first car was rumbling round London more than 200 years ago, and long before the Victorian era? We think of the 19th century as a time of horse-drawn vehicles — and largely ...

At the base are figures of four angels who carry scrolls on which are outline drawings of Trevithick's great inventions: the tramroad locomotive 1803, the Cornish pumping engine, the steam dredger ...

videoThe invention of the railway A description of the major scientific invention of the railway by George Stephenson building upon the first steam locomotive invented by Richard Trevithick.