Quand est né Richard Trevithick?
13 avril 1771
Richard Trevithick/Date de naissance
Ingénieur et inventeur britannique (Illogan, Cornwall, 1771-Dartford, Kent, 1833). Il fut le pionnier de l’emploi de la haute pression dans les machines à vapeur. Il construisit et fit fonctionner, en 1803, la première locomotive digne de ce nom.
Où est né Richard Trevithick?
Tregajorran, Royaume-Uni
Richard Trevithick/Lieu de naissance
Quand a été créé la locomotive?
1804
1804. Richard Trevithick (1771-1833), un ingénieur des mines britannique, est l’inventeur en 1804 de la première locomotive à vapeur. Il s’agit de l’adaptation au chemin de fer d’une machine à vapeur prévue pour la route : le fardier de Cugnot (1771).
Who is Richard Trevithick?
Richard Trevithick (13 April 1771 – 22 April 1833) was a British inventor and mining engineer from Cornwall. 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.
What did LTC Richard Trevithick invent?
Written By: L.T.C. Richard Trevithick, (born April 13, 1771, Illogan, Cornwall, England—died April 22, 1833, Dartford, Kent), British mechanical engineer and inventor who successfully harnessed high-pressure steam and constructed the world’s first steam railway locomotive (1803).
How many children did Richard Trevithick have?
Richard Trevithick. In 1797 he married Jane Harvey of a prominent engineering family. She bore him six children, one of whom, Francis, became locomotive superintendent of the London & North Western Railway and later wrote a biography of his father.
How did Sir Thomas Trevithick die?
After he had been working in Dartford for about a year, Trevithick was taken ill with pneumonia and had to retire to bed at The Bull hotel, where he was lodging at the time. Following a week’s confinement in bed he died on the morning of 22 April 1833.