Richard Trevithick stone plaque

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# Richard Trevithick and Gower Street Standing on Gower Street outside the UCL Student Centre, you're at the precise location where history shifted beneath iron wheels and billowing steam. It was here, in 1808, that Richard Trevithick—a visionary Cornish engineer born the year before the French Rev...

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UCL Student Centre, Gower Street

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Close to this place Richard Trevithick, born 1771-died 1833, pioneer of high pressure steam, ran in the year 1808 the first steam locomotive to draw passengers.