出典:Wikipedia
出典:『Wikipedia』 (2011/06/13 02:29 UTC 版)
Richard Trevithick (13 April 1771 – 22 April 1833) was a British Cornish inventor and mining engineer. His most significant success was the high pressure steam engine and he also built the first full-scale working railway steam locomotive. On 21 February 1804 the world's first locomotive-hauled railway journey took place as Trevithick's unnamed steam locomotive hauled a train along the tramway of the Penydarren Ironworks, in Merthyr Tydfil in Wales.