You can imagine people in the 1800s saying "That's all very well, but it will never replace the horse and cart".Ladies & Gentlemen, a round of applause for Mr. Richard Trevithick, no less than the inventor of the steam locomotive. Changing the course of history with mechanised transport.By all accounts Trevithick was mad as a sack of ferrets. Any reasonable person would never have saw this project through to completion considering the dangers of high pressure steam and the resistance and even condemnation from very powerful men. But he did, and it changed the world.