Trevithick, Richard

has biography | a une biographie: British inventor and mining engineer in Cornwall and South America in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

In 1808, having moved to London, Trevithick entered into a three year partnership with West India merchant Robert Dickinson, who has a possible match in the Legacies of British Slavery database for a "Robert Dickinson or Dickenson". Dickinson provided financial backing for several of Trevithick's ship-related patents.

According to Francis Trevithick’s biography of his father, Richard Trevithick supplied steam engines to a number of British slave-owners in the Caribbean for use on their plantations in the 1810s. Some of the slavery-linked individuals Trevithick corresponded with in this period included Sir Christopher Hawkins (1758 – 1829), Sir Rose Price 1st Bart (1768-1834), R. W. Pickwood (1776-1834) and the Pinney family.

In 1816, Trevithick moved to work on mining projects in South America, where he lived for the next eleven years of his life until 1827.
was born | est né: 13 April 1771
died in | est mort par: 13 April 1833
has type | est de type: depicted
has association with | a une association avec: Watt, James

is referred to by | est référencé par: Wikipedia - Richard Trevithick; Wikipedia - Robert Dickinson; Wikipedia - Francisco Uville; Legacies of British Slavery - Robert Dickinson or Dickenson; Legacies of British Slavery - Sir Christopher Hawkins; Legacies of British Slavery - Sir Rose Price 1st Bart.; Legacies of British Slavery - Robert Williams Pickwoad; Project Gutenberg - Francis Trevithick, Life of Richard Trevithick with an account of his inventions. Volume II. (1872); Sharron P. Schwartz, 'A "Professor" in Peru: Trevithick and the Transatlantic Migration of the Industrial Revolution' (2002); The Cornish in Latin America; Jennifer Tann, ‘Steam and Sugar: The Diffusion of the Stationary Steam Engine to the Caribbean Sugar Industry 1770-1840’, History of Technology, 19 (1997) 63-84

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