Richard Trevithick
Richard Trevithick was a British inventor and mining engineer.
His most significant success was the high pressure steam engine and he also built the first full-scale working railway steam locomotive. On 21 February 1804 the world’s first railway journey took place as Trevithick’s unnamed steam locomotive hauled a train along the tramway of the Penydarren Ironworks, near Merthyr Tydfil in Wales.
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Footnotes
- Richard Trevithick invented the steam engine.