A British mining engineer and inventor. On 21 February 1804 his unnamed steam locomotive hauled ten tons of iron, five wagons and seventy men along the tramway of the Penydarren ironworks in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, the worlds first railway journey made by a steam powered vehicle, twenty one years before George Stephensons Stockton and Darlington Railway opened the first public steam railway. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Built and ran the first steam locomotive to haul a load on rails, 1804, twenty one years before George Stephensons Stockton and Darlington Railway, this axiss other pioneered-by holder, opened the first public railway in 1825; the two pioneered different milestones of the same mode.
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Pioneered the high-pressure steam engine and built the first working railway locomotive on it
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Richard Trevithick (13 April 1771 – 22 April 1833) was a British inventor and mining engineer.
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Richard Trevithick (13 April 1771-22 April 1833) was a British inventor and mining engineer.
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By then, he had grown to 6 ft. 2 in. tall and became known as the 'Cornish Giant.'
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