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Richard Trevithick
British inventor and mining engineer (1771–1833)
Richard Trevithick (13 April 1771 – 22 April 1833) was a British inventor and mining engineer. The son of a mining captain, and born in the mining heartland of Cornwall, Trevithick was immersed in mining and engineering from an early age.
He was an early pioneer of steam-poweredroad and rail transport, and his most significant contributions were the development of the first high-pressure steam engine and the first working railway steam locomotive.[1] The world's first locomotive-hauled railway journey took place on 21 February 1804, when Trevithick's unnamed steam locomotive hauled a train along the tramway of the Penydarren Ironworks, in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales.[2][3]
Turning his interests abroad Trevithick also worked as a mining consultant in Peru and later explored parts of Costa Rica.
Throughout his professional career he went through many ups and downs and at one point faced