2007-02-24 00:34:47 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Um yeah I was JUST reading this book abt. well stuff and he built a bunch of railroads and theres more but I guess you should just search the internet. Hey, why didnt u just do that in the first place?Well, bye.
2007-02-24 00:44:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Richard Trevithick (1771-1833) - a short biography
(original research by Marj Rowland)
Richard Trevithick was born in a cottage a mile or so from Dolcoath Mine, where his father was a mine Captain. His curiosity about the engineering aspects of the mining area that he grew up in started at an early age, and this led to a career during which he pioneered the use of high pressure steam, and increased the efficiency of the engines used to pump water from the lower levels of Cornwall's tin and copper mines.
Trevithick's inventive mind was never still - his ideas ranged from the first successful self-powered road vehicle, and a steam railway engine, to schemes for wreck salvage, land reclamation, mechanical refrigeration, agricultural machinery and for tunnelling under the Thames.
Trevithick's career spanned the dawn of the industrial revolution, a time when Cornwall's engineering prowess was the envy of the world. Trevithick spent eleven years in South America, working for owners of silver mines.
Richard Trevithick is buried in an unmarked grave at Dartford, Kent, where he was working when he died. Like many great men and women, Trevithick did not get the recognition he deserved during his lifetime. Indeed, his worth has only recently been recognised by many history books.
He did not acquire riches either; any wealth that came Trevithick's way soon disappeared as he developed his next idea- one of his last ideas, for a competition for a memorial to the "Reform Bill", was for a thousand feet high cast iron column with an air operated lift to convey passengers up the inside!
2007-02-27 22:53:38 · answer #2 · answered by Chariotmender 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You probibly have his first name wrong.
Richard Trevithick (April 13, 1771 – April 22, 1833) was a British inventor, engineer and builder of the first working railway steam locomotive. He was born at Tregajorran (in the parish of Illogan), between Camborne and Redruth, in the heart of one of the rich mineral (former) mining areas of Cornwall, United Kingdom. He died on 22 April 1833 at Dartford, Kent.
2007-02-24 22:04:07 · answer #3 · answered by Freethinking Liberal 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Richard Trevithick: born in 13 April 1771
His first railway locomotive was in 1802, it seems, though the 1804 engine at the Pen-y-Darren Iron works is better known. .
2007-02-24 01:25:28 · answer #4 · answered by Pedestal 42 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Cornish man who made steam engines for mining. he came from Cambourne which is the engineering mining centre of Cornwall. Not a very clever guy but reasonably inventive
2007-02-27 08:28:13 · answer #5 · answered by Professor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
never heard of George trevithick but i have heard of Richard think you ve got confused with george Stephenson
2007-02-24 00:45:22 · answer #6 · answered by stuartalan w 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes - but btw, it's one of these funny surnames and is pronounced True-ick, if you didn't know.
2007-02-24 07:46:26 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.trevithick-day.org.uk/trevithick.html
HTH
2007-02-24 04:44:58 · answer #8 · answered by anwen55 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋