Trevithick

 

In February 1804, Richard Trevithick produced the world's first steam engine to run successfully on rails at penydarren hauling ten tons of iron, seventy passengers and five wagons from the ironworks at Penydarren to the Merthyr-Cardiff Canal.

 

trevithick, steam engine

 

 

 

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