The locomotive steam engine can be traced back to an Englishman by the name of Richard Trevithick. At the turn of the 19th ...

The locomotive managed ... It was to be several years before steam locomotion became commercially viable, but there was no denying the fact that it was Trevithick and not George Stephenson who ...

built by the Coalbrookdale Co., 26 years before Stephenson's RocketThe Coalbrookdale Company built the world's first steam railway locomotive to a design by Richard Trevithick - 26 years before ...

On Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 April, to end the Easter holidays, Blists Hill Victorian Town welcomes back its popular Steam in ...

At the base are figures of four angels who carry scrolls on which are outline drawings of Trevithick's great inventions: the tramroad locomotive 1803, the Cornish pumping engine, the steam dredger ...

Michael Mosley, Cassie Newland and Mark Miodownik describe the scientific achievements of Richard Trevithick. In 1801 he built the first steam locomotive. An explanation of mechanics of this ...

In 1801 Richard Trevithick built the first steam locomotive. In the years after this George Stephenson developed the ‘iron road’ using steam locomotives to pull waggons on rails. The first ...

Prior to this the steam locomotive had started a revolution. Richard Trevithick’s design had a boiler but this was removed to make the internal combustion engine. The German inventor Nicklaus ...

The afternoon then saw the band leading the adults in Trevithick's Dance, before the grand parade of steam featuring a host of steam engines and rollers. Trevithick's Dance (Image: Aimee John ...