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Trevithick

[trev-uh-thik]

noun

  1. Richard, 1771–1833, English engineer.



Trevithick

/ trəˈvɪθɪk /

noun

  1. Richard . 1771–1833, British engineer, who built the first steam-driven passenger carriage (1801) and the first locomotive to run on smooth wheels on smooth rails (1804)

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History was made in 1804 when Cornish inventing pioneer Richard Trevithick's engine moved on tracks under its own steam.

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Jennie Trevithick was being flown from the Isles of Scilly to have her baby at the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro on 5 December.

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“This is not just a chase for cold fusion,” says Matthew Trevithick, a research programme manager at Google in Mountain View, California.

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She is the daughter of Amelia A. Newcomb of Hingham, Mass., and Paul B. Trevithick of Brookline, Mass. The bride’s mother works in Boston as the managing editor of the Christian Science Monitor.

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Two months later, in December, Iranian security forces took yet another prisoner – Matthew Trevithick, an American studying Persian in Tehran.

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