Richard Trevithick, British inventor of the first functioning steam locomotive, received a Google Doodle on Google UK for his 240th birthday. Trevithick was born in 13 April 1771 and died 22 April ...

Today's Google doodle celebrates a British inventor who played a major role in the industrial revolution, and who was also something of a steam-powered badass. Richard Trenholm Former Movie and TV ...

ON April 27, simultaneous meetings of the members of the Newcomen Society were held in London and New York. At both places, two papers were read, the first being by Mr. W. W. Mason on Trevithick's ...

IN connexion with the celebration of the centenary of the death of the great Cornish engineer and inventor Richard Trevithick, the ‘father’ of the steam locomotive, a memorial exhibition has been ...

Volunteers at Blists Hill Victorian Town in Telford have restored a full-scale working replica of the world's first steam railway locomotive. The Trevithick was first designed by Richard Trevithick in ...

On this day in 1804, the world's first steam-powered train hauled 10 tons of iron and 70 men for nine miles at a speed of five miles an hour in Merthyr Tydvil, South Wales, opening a century whose ...

An army of unpaid volunteers are behind a Cornwall town's annual festival celebrating the famous inventor Richard Trevithick. It will be the 41st Trevithick Day with crowds gathering to see the ...

In fact, only a fifth have heard of Richard Trevithick - and just 14% are aware that he played a key role in designing the world's first steam-powered locomotive ...

"The world’s first steam locomotive, which led to a worldwide revolution in the transport industry, was built right here in Coalbrookdale under Richard Trevithick's design in 1802. Although the fate ...

The engine will run for visitors of Blists Hill Victorian Town until December [Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust] Volunteers at Blists Hill Victorian Town in Telford have restored a full-scale working ...