Richard Trevithick in Podcasts
personA British engineer who experimented with high-pressure steam engines and built the first locomotive mounted on wheels capable of hauling wagons.
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The Golden Age of Railways
The breakthrough comes in the early years of the 19th century when Cornish engineer Richard Trevithick experiments with a new kind of steam engine.