Letter from John Wesley Hackworth, Darlington to Editor of the Northern Daily Express

PART OF:
Correspondence accumulated by John Wesley Hackworth and Ann Hackworth
Made:
1861
part of archive:
Hackworth Family Archive
maker:
Hackworth, John Wesley
and
Hackworth, Ann

‘Who invented of the locomotive?’ George Stephenson credited as the inventor of the locomotive. What is the basis of this claim? ‘I trust something firmer than the Smiles fiction’ [refers to Samuel Smile’s book].

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Extent:
1 item
Identifier:
HACK/3/1/24

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