Trevithick - The World's First Locomotive
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- Опубліковано 11 тра 2017
- The world’s first steam locomotive, which led to a worldwide revolution in the transport industry, was built right here in Coalbrookdale under Richard Trevithick's design in 1802. Although the fate of the original locomotive is unknown, there is only one WORKING replica in the entire world… and it resides here at Blists Hill Victorian Town!
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You can imagine people in the 1800s saying "That's all very well, but it will never replace the horse and cart"
No one ever said that as it was never meant to. That's a modern faddism mentality.
Add on to that. In fact，trains didn't replace horse and carts. Automobiles did.
many 3rd world country still use horse and cart
It was never meant to. Wanted to get to point A to point B? You could either slap some rope and a wooden cart and wheels on a horse, or now use this clunky machine that probably broke down every 3 runs and rusted after 24 hrs, but didn’t need food or water. It was meant for the rich. Automobiles were the ones that truly replaced horses.
@@potatoboy549 Well, one one had your right, on the other, your not. They still need water for steam for the pistons and coal/wood is their.. 'food' if you want to call it that.
By all accounts Trevithick was mad as a sack of ferrets. Any reasonable person would never have saw this project through to completion considering the dangers of high pressure steam and the resistance and even condemnation from very powerful men. But he did, and it changed the world.
What a Legend.
I can attest that a sack of ferrets is indeed quite mad.
Like all innovators he was a fearless rebel who was so brave enough to get his ideas out even if it had gotten him murdered. That's why scientists, engineers and other innovators will always be the greatest people who ever lived and will be much better than all other people.
@@justinratcliffe947 So true, why it's nonsense about supposedly needing scifi (which is pure fiction, with only a slight veneer of "science" to fool the gullible) for the advancement of technology, when as the great Trevithick showed, it's rather great scientists, engineers and other innovators who are the advancement. The original Star Trek was supposedly still centuries in the future (the 23rd century) even from our 21st century, yet our cell phones can do things vastly beyond their "23rd century" communications technology.
@@justinratcliffe947 Or like lyrics from Motörhead track No voices in the sky: "The world's worst murderers were those that saw the light".
@@russedav5 So what? Sci-fi is fun!
Ladies & Gentlemen, a round of applause for Mr. Richard Trevithick, no less than the inventor of the steam locomotive. Changing the course of history with mechanised transport.
A pity that he died in poverty. Like many inventors and geniuses their work was only recognized long after their deaths
@@RedtailFox1 He's my Great Great Grandfather I still can't believe it myself but its very true
@@mrjordan6648 woah
It took just over 100 years for Steam technology to go From this to Big Boy. That is mind blowing!
And only 66 years from first flight to landing on the moon.
Progress continues at an ever increasing pace..
Just imagine the next 100 years...
If we don't build AI killer robots and exterminate ourselves
@ss
Great.. so death from the air as well as killer robots on the ground... Lolz.
I guess they missed the Terminator movies ...
Some of the stuff from Boston Dynamics is a bit scary.. having robots do freaking parkour level stuff.
Throw some onboard AI or even network based AI.. and we could be in trouble.
Just think how fast things have progressed in 100yrs for anything we use now. Cars, motorcycles, planes, buses, even what computers will be like in 100 years.
@@kens97sto171 I want foreskin regeneration technology.
@Craig F. Thompson
Why? Most of the world is uncircumcised. Europe is completely uncircumcised and is an extremely clean society. Bathrooms in Germany are cleaner than operating theaters in the third world.
It’s beautiful, and could you imagine being a farmer, watching the first tracks laid and then seeing the very first passenger train? I wonder what went through peoples minds when they saw this the first time.
They probably did a Google search to see what it was.
It seems strange now that it took decades for anyone to consider that passenger services would be useful or even desirable for a railway.
Early locomotives weren't pushed to travel at anything more than about 12mph and the dodgy track of the era probably wouldn't have taken it if they had. Until then locomotives only had to outcompete the plodding horses they replaced.
I remember reading one account by a Victorian author who was a boy seeing an early locomotive for the first time, and his reaction was to be unimpressed. The adults who took him to see it told him it'd come by quick as a flash. Instead it lolloped by at barely running pace, and proved to be a real disappointment to him.
The Liverpool to Manchester Railway was opened in 1830 and was designed from the get go to be a passenger carrying system as well as a freight carrier. Finally there was incentive for trains to move at a faster pace and within a year 30mph+ speeds were being achieved. These did scare some people. One of George Stephenson's seasoned engineers was so petrified driving the trains at these "high" speeds that he begged to be allowed to go back to driving the old ones moving at walking pace!
An urban legend emerged that if you opened the window on a fast moving train that all the air would be sucked out and the people in the coach would suffocate!
Most of all though, people moaned about the steam and smoke the locomotives produced and the terrible sounds they made. They were regarded as major eyesores and people were very hostile towards having them anywhere near their homes. Like anything new, there was no shortage of nimbys trying to chase them away with pitchforks!
Probably something like "WHAT IS THIS BEASTLY BEING?!"
My great grandmother saw her first locomotive in the 1890s. It was at night and she thought it was the Devil- making loud noises, puffing out smoke and spitting fire.
"Hunk of Rubbish."
I live in Sweden and I have been to this place on a holiday. It’s a fantastic place that I recommend dearly. No just the locomotive but everything there! Actually the whole Iron bridge area is extremely interesting.
My husband and I had the privilege of eating breakfast at the cafe right at that Welch iron mine-yard where this invention was started. The man of the yard came and sat at our table and told us all about it and we didn't realize how true those facts were till we check them out later but we were sitting at the exact yard of that working yard where that invention was begotten. We were going from England to Scotland, and pulled into and through Wales looking for breakfast . We saw a tiny sign for a cafe , ducted down that little road right down into the yard where this wonderful steam engine was invented. A man of the work came and sat at our table for just a visit with us and told us this story, this wonderful Invention Story which we didn't even know how true it was until today where you have confirmed it along with our Welch friends. All of this a joy for us American Travelers at that time
like a giant swiss watch
prototype615h lol
The machine that changed the world
Railroads will likely never be replaced. They have changed the world.
I thought the rocket was the first steam engine ever built
Rose Theis nope
साहेबांचा पोर लई नकली बिन बैलाची गाडी कशी ढकली.
That it did
When I was a kid back in the 60s one of my little school pals had a little Sears steam engine just mounted on thing. But I was fascinated! You used these little white cubes to burn that slid in on a little tray. I just had to have one! So come Christmas time circa 1966 I wrote Santa Claus asking for the Sears steam engine please. Well, not only did I get my wish but Santa delivered me the steam roller version!! It actually really rolled along the driveway! It had a little gear 2 speed shift, your build/release valve levers and everything. Little chain driven steering wheel, metal canopy. Well, I'm sure they don't sell those anymore, at least not in this country, due to some ridiculously overprotective safety law. One might burn their little fingers or something, ouchie. I never did! And they were quite the learning experience too. Just a fun memory.
Loved watching this.
Thanks for uploading it!
@@phantomcorsair8476 Name
can't they explode?? the boilers anyway or were they low pressure steam engines
Just think without this steam locomotive the world wouldn’t be the same
Funtime Follies sombody would have built one
Johnathan Hodskins I highly doubt that for some reason. Just because Richard was the only one daring enough to use high pressure steam
Funtime Follies yea but forever? Like yea maybe it would set humanity back a bit but forever?? I imagine some guy would have the idea again
Or girl not gonna judge.
Johnathan Hodskins that is true.
I love the british for the great innovations and the ability to preserve such a monument in a full functionl state... Love from Nigeria.....
This is actually a reproduction, they trashed the original and the man who made it died in poverty
@DAILY ROUTINE VILLAGE r/choosingbeggers
It truly is incredible how well they care for their vehicles... the ones they preserve, at least.
@@FishbedMyBeloved jesus... that's a real shame. Who invented this beauty??
ससससससससससससससस
Other steam engines: *chuff chuff*
This engine: *Ratatatatatatatat*
Hahahahha Ratatatatatatata
Not only did he design a machine that had never been done before, but his design was the best considering the manufacturing technology of the time, the original would have been made with hand tools - notice the small cylinder with a very long stroke - this reduces the circumference of the piston reducing leakage, and spreading out the wear over a long stroke at the same time, and as it's inside the boiler it stays warm, vastly reducing condensation losses.
Such a marvel of a design and to think people thought having a single horizontal piston was the best thing for a locomotive
Some newer steam engine also had vertical pistons,.such as the geared narrow gauge locomotives like the shay and climax
@@virmirfan oh yes i know of them but still a single piston
The Coalbrookdale locomotive is a single-cylinder 0-4-0 built by Richard Trevithick in 1804 for a colliery (coal processing plant) in Wales.
if I get it corectly
Coalbrookdale Locomotive - first ever locomotive, but its uknown whether or not it actually ran
"Pen-y-Darren" locomotive - first ever locomotive that was recored to actually ran
@@ReeEmbrioyes, you are correct. The provenance of the Coalbrookdale engine is debated as the only recording known of it is a letter for an order of a "carriage for the rail roads", which is not only unclear as to whether such a hypothetical engine ran or not, but even if such a "carriage" was refering to a self-propelled engine anyway...
This machine is not only useful' but also has artistic value
Thanks for this beautiful moment of history.
Thanks for this VDO. Seen first time.
It is one of the most magnificent piece of innovation.
This is Thomas’s great great grandpa
Haha. Very good!
Percy's great great grandfather was built in 1 million bc
Jason Loper Steven probably knew the Trevithick engine, as it was built in 1804 and Steven in 1830
Rhat guz my grand ma hes dead now from coronavirus
@Jason The Tank Engine LOL SO TRUE
And it’s still operational! A serious invention of its day.
This here is a replica based upon old design drawings. No one is sure what happened to the original, though one theory suggests it was broken up and turned into a stationary engine to run shop tools.
Thanks for sharing this beautiful piece of history
Simply fascinated to see and watch, a wonderful piece of machinery how brilliant we are. All of us ONE and all !!!!
Trevithik and Cornwall, i Never forget in my life...
Ragu from India
Thank you for the glimpse into the past.
Thanks for the video. It's amazing!!!
Britain... The pioneer of modern world...
Fascinating!!!
うわ！！！ すげーです。蒸気機関車の図鑑でしか見たことがないSLが動画で見ることが、できるとはおもっていませんでした。
this thing is damn badass! :D
Amazing!
Anyone else find this almost soothing in an ASMR sense? The gentle clicking and clacking...just watching the machine steadily moving
That was fantastic!
What a perfection and made to precision.
Es una máquina surrealista, una maravilla, y para su época era tecnología muy avanzada. Eran tiempos de invenciones en el campo del vapor y su mecánica, con Watt, Fulton, Stephenson y otros que iban imprimiendo avances a la maquina a vapor en todas sus formas y aplicaciones. Verdaderos genios.
awesome, thanks for sharing
Thomas reboot looks REALLY good
Awesome. Consider the ingenuity of those days to build such a thing.
Trevithick clearly spent his boyhood in churchtowers.
It does resemble a tower clock mechanism!
@@Petemonster62
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Excellent thank you
Awesome very first steam loco engine. Such a good start...
Bravo, muito lindo esse senhor, que máquina magnífica, parabéns
Uauuu! What a wonderful machine??🤩 Great!! 👍👏👏👏
Power house of it's time, ty for sharing.
Great, amazing, wonderful.
Back in the 19th century, it was a nice design and was really useful just before the Golden Age of Steam begins.
A bit faster than I thought it was.
Yes
rayhagele well it’s not hauling cars behind it
how many horse power was it?
@@connormclernon26 I don't think that thing could haul any cars
JD_Kreeper I recall reading of trevithick using a locomotive similar to this to haul passengers around a looped track in coal cars, so it could haul cars
Everybody should have one of these. Cheers!
What a contraption. Awesome
There is no evidence that the "original" was ever completed or that it ever ran. The world's first documented run was at Pen-Y-Darren in 1804.
The pen-Y-Darren was the original.
@@andersonantoniodiazserpas1541 . My authority is the National Railway Museum. They confirmed that there was no evidence that the Coalbrookdale engine was ever completed or ran, and that the Pen-Y-Darren was the first recorded run.
Yes, but guess who designed that colliery locomotive?
You need to check your facts.
@@johnelliott2364 You need to check your facts.
Wow! A *working* model! I still have the plastic one I assembled in the 1970s...
Post a pic
I have one too from Minicraft (scale 1/38), though needs to be painted and assembled yet.
I so remember the original in the Science Museum which was next to our apartment building on Exhibition Road in London
Wonderful to see it work, for real.
Magnificent!!!
Good camera quality for 1802
That's funny!!
Cameras didn't exist in 1802
Damn, what a flywheel!
To fill up the power gaps of that long stroke piston
It looks as though it only has one cylinder. With a very primitive slide valve it needed the huge flywheel to maintain the momentum over top and bottom dead centre. From the sound it makes it doesn't sound as though it has a blast pipe either to make the fire burn more strongly.
@@tonymaries1652 Trevithick came up with blastpipes after he built this, and I think Puffing Billy of 1815 has one (can't remember if she is Trevithick built though.) If traction engines are any evidence, this thing could probably use a push to start every now and then.
@@tonymaries1652 The replica does. ua-cam.com/video/IdaqeHHrjEg/v-deo.html
Yes but not necessary on later designs as it was a OHS hazard.
How marvelous!
Thanks to Mr. Trevithick locomotives and railway transport exist. He would undoubtedly deserve monuments around the world for his contribution to the well-being of the society.
Nice
Me driving my 97’ corolla to work
@DAILY ROUTINES FIDAA your channel sucks
B.F. Skinner .-.
Amazing
Wow, piece of history this thing! ♥ ️👍
Awesome job keeping history alive!
Wow, with the engineering and rarity of this beautiful machine surely it must be priceless!!
It's a modern reconstruction.
Amazing contraption. Must have been terrifying for those first engineers. Will it blow up?
I hear, that the Early steam boat did explode
@@AS-R-bx3zi This is a locomotive, not a boat
Wonderful
Thank you trevithick... you are a hero
Stephensons rocket: hold my coal
@Nathaniel Aberdein and it swayed from side to side like a mad thing
damn, that thing looks dangerous. imagine one the the piston rods just snapping back!??! other than that, it looks satisfying seeing all the gears and big parts move. LOL IT WENT FASTER IN REVERSE
astounding engineering. she's amazing
so Cool, great short video, like! :D
Just imagine how this is the up big boys great grand pa
That just makes me smile. Simpler days.
Beautiful
You don't realize how compact and refined an engine is till you look at an older version.
When will I reach my home.....?
May be a year later....
When did your nation build their first locomotive?
Stupid response.
Great idea
Correction folks, this loco first run on rails at Pennderin near Merthyr.
Cogs...
E V E R Y W H E R E
One big cylinder and flywheel geared to the wheels slapping its way down the track and it easily reverses itself. That was the old way.
Not reverses itself; 0:40, the left hand of the machinist. By that move, he leads the steam to the other side of the piston and then it goes backwards
As always we create everything the world uses it and what thanks do we get,
excellent
0-4-4 wheel configuration.
The locomotive was a 0-4-0, the rear wheels were the tender which don't count in the locomotive's wheel configuration.
You're both wrong, it's a geared locomotive, so Whyte Notification doesn't apply. If it had coupling rods, that would make it an 0-4-0.
@@ajaxengineco Does Whyte notation not apply to locomotives that joined their axles with gears rather than side rods? If so I guess that makes it a "B" designation (two driven axles rigidly connected and geared together)? I've seen that notation (UIC I believe) used mostly for diesel and electric locomotives, but also for steam in Europe. To really determine the "proper" notation for this we should look at how they notated other geared steam locomotives, such as Shays - I've only ever seen them described as two- three- or four-truck though.
@@quillmaurer6563 You are correct, Whyte only works if coupling rods are present. I don't really understand UIC but I'm pretty sure that would be correct in this circumstance. Shays, Heislers and Climaxes (all geared types really) are very similar, just with the driveshaft and cylinders rearranged. To spare the effort, most people just count trucks. Here in Britain, in regards to Diesels, we use a system of 4 wheel truck = bo, 6 wheel truck = co. So and engine with to 6 wheel bogies becomes a co-co. I imagine you can apply that logic to geared steam engines, but most have 4 wheel trucks and most would end up as a 'bo-bo-bo.' Think a three truck Shay.
@@ajaxengineco From what I understand lowercase "o" after the letter means that the axles are powered by individual traction motors rather than mechanically coupled together (as by coupling rods or gears). Thus a three-truck Shay might be a B-B-B. But I think that designation would still assume the trucks are individually powered rather than all geared together, I'm not sure if there is a way of denoting multiple trucks mechanically coupled. That's a pretty rare arrangement, as far as I know only Shays, Climaxes, and Heislers. Maybe some diesel-mechanical locomotives (early diesels) had driveshafts to multiple trucks. Might be such an uncommon arrangement there's not really any designation for it. As for this, it's still a two-coupled steam locomotive with all wheels rigidly on the frame, the only difference being that they are coupled by a gear rather than side rods - that doesn't really effect the wheel arrangement in any practical manner of ability to negotiate curves, adhesion, or even things like firebox support (the common reason for trailing wheels).
so amazing i would put wheels on it and drive it around
I think he built a steerable road version.
Insane how far we've come.
Amazing …
IT DOESN’T EVEN GO IN TRACKS OMG
i'm almost sure you will find tracks under the weeds otherwise the earth wouldn't carri the weight
More like trevi-thicc.
Atomat235 7 eyyyyy
Ayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Don't be so immature and offensive
Marvelous 👍
Phenomenal.
the british are the best nation....
Don't know why they claim this is the only working replica when there's been one in Swansea industrial and maritime museum for decades. The original ran at Penydarren iron works in Merthyr Tydfil, but the rails weren't up to the task (they were still made of cast iron intended for lighter horse drawn loads, and proved too fragile), so it was converted to a static engineer. Trevithick was an engineering genius but a hopeless businessman, sad his place in history isn't more widely recognised.
Really great experiment 🙏
Amazing vehicle. Thumbs up! :)
😮 wonderfull!❤
So nice, and great
Uno spettacolo!
This is a jewel .
Wow.. Amazing machine... 👍👍👍👍👍