Definition of Richard Trevithick

1. Noun. English engineer who built the first railway locomotive (1771-1833).

Exact synonyms: Trevithick
Generic synonyms: Applied Scientist, Engineer, Technologist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Richard Trevithick

Richard Kuhn
Richard Leakey
Richard Lovelace
Richard M. Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon
Richard Morris Hunt
Richard Neville
Richard Nixon
Richard Phillips Feynman
Richard Rodgers
Richard Roe
Richard Smalley
Richard Snary
Richard Starkey
Richard Strauss
Richard Trevithick (current term)
Richard Upjohn
Richard Wagner
Richard Wright
Richard of York gave battle in vain
Richard the Lion-Hearted
Richard the Lionheart
Richard von Krafft-Ebing
Richards
Richardson
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Richardson ground squirrel
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Literary usage of Richard Trevithick

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1899)
"The elder Richard Trevithick, who was born in 1735, became manager of Dolcoath mine, where he constructed a deep adit in 1705, and where he erected a New- ..."

2. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1859)
"Contributions to the Biography of Richard Trevithick, CE By R. EDMONDS, Esq., ... I was well acquainted with the late Mr Richard Trevithick, having had ..."

3. A Descriptive History of the Steam Engine by Robert Stuart (1824)
"Richard Trevithick and Alexander Vivian, Cornwall. High pressure engine. Bryan Higgins, London. Saving fuel. Matthew Murray, Leeds. Portable engine. ..."

4. Memoirs of the Distinguished Men of Science of Great Britain: Living in the by William Walker (1862)
"Richard Trevithick, inventor of the first high pressure steam-engine, and the first steam-carriage used in England, was born in the parish of Illogan, ..."

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