Discover the man who arguably brought the industrial revolution to the Hispanic New World with the first steam engine at silver mines in Peru. The new addition to the biographies in the Individuals  section, Richard Trevithick (1771-1833), was authored by Joel Griffett, a Phd student at the Institute of Cornish Studies at the University of Exeter currently researching the activities of Trevithick in Spanish America for this doctoral thesis.