Cornishman Richard Trevithick (1771-1833) was one of the pioneering
engineers of the Industrial Revolution. Best remembered today for
his early railway locomotive, Trevithick worked on a wide range of
projects, including mines, mills, dredging machinery, a tunnel
under the Thames, military engineering, and prospecting in South
America. However, his difficult personality and financial failures
caused him to be overshadowed by contemporaries such as Robert
Stephenson and James Watt. This two-volume study by his son
Francis, chief engineer with the London and North-Western Railway,
was published in 1872, and helped to revive his neglected
reputation. It places its subject in his historical and technical
context, building on the work of his father, Richard Trevithick
Senior, and the Cornish mining industry. It contains much technical
detail, but is still of interest to the general reader. Volume 1
covers his predecessors, and early life, before examining his work
thematically.
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