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 on this day in 1858
• John Deere was granted a patent for the first commercially successful steel plough on this day in 1865