Richard Trevithick (1771-1833), British engineer and inventor.
His father was a mine manager at Redruth in Cornwall and he trained as a mining engineer and invented improved methods of working the steam engine using high pressure steam.
In 1800, he devised a double-acting high pressure steam engine. Known as a "puffer", it was employed in the mining areas of his native Cornwall and South Wales. The following year he devised a steam-driven road carriage and, employing the same high-pressure technology, locomotives for a South Wales railway in 1804.
In 1816, Trevithick superintended the installation of his steam engines in the silver mines of Peru but lost all his wealth in the war of independence. Helped by Robert L Stephenson, he returned to England in 1827 and died in poverty in 1833.
Trevithick influenced the development of the steam engine to an extent only equalled by George Stephenson.
Trevithick lived in a cottage, now owned by the National Trust, at Penponds in Cornwall when his father was a mine manager at Redruth. He returned there when he was married.
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