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Richard Trevithick

noun
1.
English engineer who built the first railway locomotive (1771-1833).  Synonym: Trevithick.





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... contain the basic principles of some of the modern smoke preventing furnaces. Until the early part of the nineteenth century, the low steam pressures used caused but little attention to be given to the form of the boiler operated in connection with the engines above described. About 1800, Richard Trevithick, in England, and Oliver Evans, in America, introduced non-condensing, and for that time, high pressure steam engines. To the initiative of Evans may be attributed the general use of high pressure ...
— Steam, Its Generation and Use • Babcock & Wilcox Co.
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Words linked to "Richard Trevithick" :   Trevithick, technologist, applied scientist, engineer


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