MEMORIAL TO RICHARD TREVITHIC
INVENTOR OF HIGH-PRESSURE STEAM ENGINE unman oPKiriAi. mKii.Kjs.i : (Received April 22, 7.15 p.m.) RUGBY, April 20. A memorial to Richard Trevithic, inventor of the high-pressure steam engine, who died about 100 years \„ ago, has been unveiled at Merthyr ''-siJVdfil, in South Wales, where Trevithic served as an engineer when I he made his epoch-making inven'The tramway track over which his locomotive, drawing a number of trucks curtaining 10 tons of pig' iron and 7) men made its first journey on bbruary 21, 1807, actually crossed U-< site of the memor-
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21146, 23 April 1934, Page 12
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