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Richard Trevithick: Giant of Steam
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| #2700416 in Books | 2002-06-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.50 x.65 x5.10l,.43 | File type: PDF | 246 pages||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| A giant among engineers.|By Tony Watson|The opening chapters of this informative book give the history of Cornwall in a nutshell:- the mining, the unforgiving coastline, the wrecks, the climate and the people. Specifically from the mining aspect, we see how the conditions lent themselves to some form of mechanised help with raising tin & copper ore and draing the shafts & tunne||'Trevithick was a giant of a man, an engineer with the temper of a buccaneer, who was furiously inventive and steadfastly independent... In a book richly flavoured with forceful characters and strong plots, Trevithick stands out. Anthony Burton has written an
Two hundred years ago, Richard Trevithick invented the "Cornish engine," the world's first self-propelled steam vehicle. Yet fame and fortune obstinately eluded this great engineer whose reckless, headstrong nature often made him his own worst enemy. Despite dying in poverty and relative obscurity, he is now recognized as one of the most remarkable figures of the Industrial Revolution, and his extraordinary career, which took him from his native Cornwall to Lon...
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