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Who built the first steam locomotive to run on rails?

  • A.James Watt
  • B.W.H.F. Talbot
  • C.Richard Trevithick
  • D.Eli Whitney

Answer: C

Richard Trevithick built it.

His locomotive hauled ten tonnes of iron and seventy men along the Penydarren tramway in Wales on 21 February 1804 - the first steam engine to run on rails. George Stephenson built the first practical railway locomotive twenty years later.

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