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When was the first locomotive invented?
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On February 21, 1804, Richard Trevithick demonstrated his latest invention at the Penydarren mining railway in Wales. It was the world's first railway locomotive. It made a journey of 16 kilometres in four hours, pulling ten tonnes of iron on which 70 men sat.
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