Richard Trevithick

Richard Trevithick

Richard Trevithick (April 13,1771 - April 22, 1833) was a Cornish inventor and engineer. He is best known for making the first working steam locomotive. However, it was designed to be a road vehicle, not a railroad one.

Trevithick was from the heart of a big mining area in Cornwall, U.K. His parents were Richard Trevithick (1735-1797) and Ann Teague (d. 1810.) In 1797, Trevithick married Jane Harvey. He died of pneumonia in 1833.

Richard Trevithick Media

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  Trevithick's No. 14 engine, built by Hazledine and Company, Bridgnorth, about 1804, and illustrated after being rescued c. 1885; from Scientific American Supplement, Vol. XIX, No. 470, 3 January 1885. This engine is on view at the Science Museum (London).

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  Camborne Hill street name and plaque commemorating Trevithick's steam carriage demonstration in 1801

• A replica of Trevithick's Puffing Devil, built by the Trevithick Society and running on Trevithick's day 2017

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  A drawing of the Coalbrookdale locomotive from the Science Museum

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  The London Steam Carriage, by Trevithick and Vivian, demonstrated in London in 1803

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  Trevithick's 1804 locomotive. This full-scale reconstruction is in the National Waterfront Museum, Swansea.

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  Trevithick'ssteamcircus

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  Trevithick's statue by the public library at Camborne, Cornwall