Andrew Vivian

Andrew Vivian (1759-1842) was a Cornish mechanical engineer, inventor, and mine captain of the famous Dolcoath Silver Mine in Cornwall. The family of Vivian is a very old one in Cornwall.

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In partnership with his cousin, the mine engineer Richard Trevithick (1771-1833), Andrew Vivian gave a great contribution to today's railway transportation system, inventing the steam locomotive and substituting at the beginning of the 19th century the animal power with the machine power.

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They produced the first steam carriage or locomotive in 1801, patenting high pressure engines for stationary and locomotive use in March of the following year.

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