Nicholas Vivian
Nicholas Vivian was a schoolfellow and intimate friend of Richard Trevithick
Nicholas Vivian saw the Camborne steam-carriage, and was familiar with the stories of the early trials, as his friends and relatives were interested in it
1809 Mine captain Nicholas Vivian was appointed manager to re-establish working at Wheal Abraham mine, which had been idle for some years.
c.1830 an old intimate of Richard Trevithick's, Captain Nicholas Vivian, managed the Wheal Towan mine. Mr. Neville, a shareholder and user of steam-engines in Wales, observed the economical working of the Wheal Towan high-pressure steam expansive engine, doing eighty-seven millions; he requested its manager to examine colliery engines, all of which were of the low-pressure kind; one of them was a Newcomen atmospheric, whose duty was six millions; four or five others were Watt low-pressure steam vacuum engines, doing fourteen millions; therefore the high-pressure steam-engine did six times as much work with a bucket of coal as the low-pressure steam vacuum, and fourteen times as much as the low-pressure steam atmospheric engine[1]
1858 Nicholas Vivian resided at Camborne
See Also
Sources of Information
- Life of Richard Trevithick by F. Trevithick Various chapters