What is recorded here
This white commemorative plaque records: William Murdock lived in this house 1782-1798 made the first locomotive here and tested it in 1784, invented gas-lighting and used it in this house in 1792
William Murdock was a Scottish engineer and inventor who developed early models of steam-powered vehicles and pioneered the use of coal gas for lighting, significantly influencing industrial technology and urban illumination.
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