Reading the summary of the report, one thing that became immediately obvious to Vijay was that the whole design of the steam engine that Heyram and other researchers had developed seemed to be strikingly similar to the Penydarren Locomotive engine, developed by the English engineer Richard Trevithick.
Trevithick was a researcher from a small town in Cornwall who grew up in the mining community and was dissatisfied with the limitations of a low-powered steam engine made by James Watt, so he made a high-powered engine that was more compact and more powerful.
Finally reaching the laboratory, Vijay saw a small machine placed right in the centre of the laboratory floor as if it were the crown jewel in a museum, but thinking about its importance to the empire and what it means to human travel, it might actually be more valuable.
" So, Heyram, tell me what you have done, " Vijay enquired as he put down the document he was reading and folded his hands with the expression of I'm listening.
