Trevithick

American  

[trev-uh-thik] / ˈtrɛv ə θɪk /

noun

1. Richard, 1771–1833, English engineer.

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Trevithick British  

/ 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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Example Sentences

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

From BBC

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

From BBC

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

From Nature

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.

From New York Times

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

From Reuters