This Day, That Year – February 21
The world’s first locomotive, Richard Trevithick’s steam locomotive, ran along the tramway of the Penydarren Ironworks in Merthyr Tydfil on this day in 1804. Did you know that: • The first known sewing machine was patented by John Greenough on this day in 1842• Edwin T. Holmes invented and installed the first electric burglar alarm […]
