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mirandaskye: I have been branded with folly and madness for attempting what the world calls impossibilities, and even from the great engineer, the late Mr. James Watt, who said to an eminent scientific character still living, that I deserved hanging for bringing into use the high-pressure engine. This so far has been my reward from the public; but should this be all, I shall be satisfied by the great secret pleasure and laudable pride that I feel in my own breast from having been the instrument of bringing forward and maturing new principles and new arrangements of boundless value to my country. Richard Trevithick, engineer, 13 April 1771 - 22 April 1833 Richard Trevithick took the world into the railway age on 21 February 1804 when he set one of his high-pressure steam engines on an iron master’s tram rails. The seven-tonne locomotive hauled 10 tonnes of iron, 70 passengers, and five wagons from the ironworks in Merthyr Tydfil to the Merthyr-Cardiff Canal at Abercynon, reaching a top speed of almost 5mph during its nine-mile journey.

mirandaskye:

I have been branded with folly and madness for attempting what the world calls impossibilities, and even from the great engineer, the late Mr. James Watt, who said to an eminent scientific character still living, that I deserved hanging for bringing into use the high-pressure engine.

This so far has been my reward from the public; but should this be all, I shall be satisfied by the great secret pleasure and laudable pride that I feel in my own breast from having been the instrument of bringing forward and maturing new principles and new arrangements of boundless value to my country.

Richard Trevithick, engineer, 13 April 1771 - 22 April 1833

Richard Trevithick took the world into the railway age on 21 February 1804 when he set one of his high-pressure steam engines on an iron master’s tram rails.

The seven-tonne locomotive hauled 10 tonnes of iron, 70 passengers, and five wagons from the ironworks in Merthyr Tydfil to the Merthyr-Cardiff Canal at Abercynon, reaching a top speed of almost 5mph during its nine-mile journey.