CATCH ME WHO CAN?

 After all, what were the problems that changed the journey of months into days?

Man has been seeking progress from the very beginning and is in search of something to know and see and this trend continues even today.

It is said that sometimes there are problems in a person's life which either change his world or he changes the world and this is rarely seen.

Richard Trevithick had similar problems.

RICHARD TREVITHICK

Richard Trevithick was born on 13 April 1771 in Cornwall, England and died on 22 April 1833 in Dartford, Kent, England at the age of 62.

Born into a wealthy family, Richard's father was a mine engineer by profession and was a captain in a mine. From the beginning, Richard was more interested in sports than studies, and so in education. Unable to find a place, Richard was interested in mining and the invention of steam engines, which were then used to extract water from mines.

So at just 19 years old, Richard began his career at East Stray Park Mine and soon became famous for his interest in the work and his father's name.

Here we need to point out that there was no innovation in mining at that time and horse carriages were used to transport coal in the mines.

Richard presented an innovative plan to improve transportation at the mine, Richard improved the steam engines invented by William Wardock in 1770 to increase its horsepower.

But the project was soon rejected by his colleagues in the local Cornwall technical community, mainly because of a crisis of consensus and trust between mine owners and technicians that led to the project's approval. But here Richard did not give up.

Richard began his projects in the early 19th century with funding from Samuel Humphrey, owner of an iron factory, and soon invented a high-pressure steam engine consisting of two acting cylinders, a four-way valve and a chimney. The crankshaft in this engine converted its linear motion into rotational motion, and this quality increased its popularity.

In 1801, Richard invented a large steam-powered locomotive in Cambridge called Puffing Devil (here we want to make it clear that a steam-powered vehicle had already been invented in 1770 by Nicholas Joseph). Were cognate)

PUFFING DEVIL ENGINE

Richard successfully demonstrated his invention on a Christmas Eve, taking six passengers on a journey, first from Fourth Street to Camborne Hill, and then from Camborne Cross to Beacon Village, associated by Andrew Wayne, who also seemed to have a cousin who was later recognized as a major traveling demonstrator who needed the power of steam.

ANDREW WAYNE

During further experiments, the Puffing Devil had an engine fire three days after his demonstration, but Richard did not admit it was a major failure and was not shocked.

Richard's invention took him to Coal brook dale in 1802, where he worked on water measurement and temperature, and with the help of the Coal brook dale Company, Richard developed an engine that ran at 40 strokes per minute and had a boiler with a pressure limit of 145ps (1000kw).

COAL BROOK DALE ENGINE 

Was capable of producing what was its own example at the time, but it was not so common, but evidence of this can be found in Richard's drawings at the Science Museum in London and a letter to his friend David Gilbert.

That same year, Richard built a steam engine at Penny Darren Ironworks to operate a hammer with the help of an iron factory worker (Ross Jones) and supervised by Samuel Humphrey (Iron Factory owner), which was later mounted on wheels and  changed into car.

PENNY DARREN IRON WORKS ENGINE

Richard sold his invention to Samuel Humphrey. In fact, Samuel Humphrey was so impressed with Richard's steam car that he bet his friend that he would take ten tons of iron with him from Penny Darren Ironworks to Abercynon (Village). Samuel later won and put the engine back on its old job, The puffing devil engine could not maintain its structure for long and was shut down.

In 1803, Richard built a steam-powered carriage called London steam engine that remained the center of public attention, but in the same year when it was run from London to Holborn to Paddington and back, it proved to be more expensive than a regular horse-drawn carriage, so it was discontinued. Done.

LONDON STEAM ENGINE

In 1808, Richard, John Hazledine, and John Urpeth Rastrick demonstrated their skills in Shopshire, inventing their last steam-powered train, separate and modern from all steam locomotives ever made.

 Catch Me Who Can was named by David Gilbert's daughter

CATCH ME WHO CAN TRAIN

He demonstrated this invention on a round track at Euston Square Tube Station in London and proved that train travel is safer and faster than horses.

But shocked by the lack of response from people, Richard decided not to design the next train.

(Here we want to make it clear that Richard did not stop his inventions even after the damage and trauma of 1808, and this continued until a year before Richard's death.)

After a year at Dartford, Richard became ill and died at the Bull Hotel on the morning of April 22, 1833, after a few weeks of illness.

(It is very sad and reprehensible here that Richard became so lonely and poor in the last days of his life that even Richard's last rites were paid for by his co-workers by collecting donations and burying him.) Also paid for his protection and was buried in an unmarked grave at St. Beverly Ground, East Hill, Dartford).

Written By Syed Murtaza Hassan. 

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