biography
| name: |
Trevithick, Richard
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pronunciation:
[trevithik]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1771–1833)
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| biography:
| Engineer and inventor, born in Illogan, Cornwall, SW England, UK. He became a mining engineer at Penzance, and between 1796 and 1801 invented a steam carriage which ran between Camborne and Tuckingmill, and which in 1803 was run from Leather Lane to Paddington by Oxford St. He later went to Peru and Costa Rica (1816–27), where his engines were introduced into the silver mines. |
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