Richard Roberts, scientist with a Welsh connection!

Richard Roberts

Textile machinery, railway locomotives and other industrial inventions.

Connection: Born Llanymynech, 1789.

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comment by:MalcolmX
Roberts was a phenomenon who took out around twenty-five patents encompassing over a hundred inventions and was the greatest mechanical genius of the 1800's. Really Neil! Yes really Cymro. His ideas were used and appropriated by the great engineers of the day.