PUTTING HISTORY RIGHT.
Most people, asked who invented the locomotive, would say George Stephenson, and the stntue which stands iu the central hall of Euston Station awards him that honour. It is true that he was 1 the authentic maker of the world’s first railway systems, but be constructed his first locomotive in 1814. while the Cornish engineer, Richard Trevethick, constructed the first steam carriage running on rails ten years earlier. Richard Trevethick first ran a locomotive on rails in 1801 from Penydarren. Merthyr Tydvil, to a village eight miles away, then named Aberdare Junction (now Abercynon). He even made an operating model of a locomotive as. early as 1796, anti it may still be seen in the Science Museum of South Kensington.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 124, 18 February 1933, Page 20
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