Memorial Edition of the Life of Richard TrevithickE. & F. N. Spon, 1883 - 24 pages |
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1815 Trevithick agricultural ash-pit Bart Boulton and Watt CAMBORNE cast-iron Charing Cross chimney cock-lever condenser constructed Cornish mines Cornwall Costa Rica cranks cross-head driving wheels engraving erected Euston Square exhaust steam F. N. Spon feet 6 inches fire-place flues four-way cock four-way steam-cock gear-handles Guayaquil half of Euston high-pressure engine high-pressure steam high-pressure steam-engine inches diameter inches in diameter inventions inventor JOHN ISAAC HAWKINS letter lever LL.D loco locomotive engine locomotive was built London me-who-can miles an hour nautical labourer Newcastle patent Peru piston piston-rod plug-rod pole propelling rail broke RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVE railway system Richard Trevithick ROAD LOCOMOTIVE second locomotive SHIPS DECK Sir Christopher Hawkins South Kensington SOUTH WALES tappets thick's thrashing tion tive tramway locomotive Trevi Trevithick's engine TREVITHICK'S FIRST ROAD TREVITHICK'S HIGH-PRESSURE Trevithick's locomotive TREVITHICK'S PLUNGER-POLE TREVITHICK'S SECOND Trewithen tube tural Uville valve vithick Wales WILLIAM winding-engines worm or screw wrought-iron cylindrical boiler