Richard Trevithick, British inventor of the first functioning steam locomotive, received a Google Doodle on Google UK for his 240th birthday. Trevithick was born in 13 April 1771 and died 22 April ...

Trevithick made use of the power of high-pressure steam to improve engines, building on James Watt's engine, which had been predominantly in use up until the end of the 18th century.

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Homfray encouraged Trevithick to put a steam-powered engine onto a rail-mounted locomotive to travel over newly laid tramroad from his works at Penydarren to a canal wharf at Abercynon nine-and ...

Today's Google doodle celebrates a British inventor who played a major role in the industrial revolution, and who was also something of a steam-powered badass.

The locomotive managed to haul ten tons of iron, and seventy passengers - proof that a steam engine could run on smooth rails.

Key to its plans is the return of the Trevithick Engine - currently held by the Science Museum - to its original location on the estate. The steam engine was used at Trewithen for threshing until ...

Trevithick was an inventor of astonishing fertility but his main contribution to engineering progress was his invention of the high-pressure non-condensing steam engine and its application to both ...

People in a Cornish town have been celebrating the life and works of a world-famous engineer. Trevithick Day is held every year to commemorate Richard Trevithick, the pioneer of high pressure steam ...

One of the most versatile inventors of his age, Trevithick was a pioneer in the use of high pressure steam, and by his experiment in 1804 he became the father of the steam locomotive.