World's first steam whistle, invented by Adrian Stephens, 1833
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Adrian Stephens was born near Penzance, Cornwall, in 1795. He moved to Merthyr Tydfil in 1827. There he worked at Dowlais Iron Works where he invented the steam whistle as a warning device on the boilers.
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