Draft letter/notes from John Wesley Hackworth to W.W.W. Wood, Paterson, New Jersey
- Made:
- 1873-12-25
- part of archive:
- Hackworth Family Archive
- maker:
- Hackworth, John Wesley and Hackworth, Ann
Valve motion, W. Stivers [?], U.S. Navy had suggested he brought the invention before the authorities in Washington, ‘I came to this country for my health, when I left England the gear was at work on fifty steamers. A locomotive on the Hudson River Railway has been running with it over five months’ on reverse ‘description of John Wesley Hackworth’s patent reverse and variable expansion valve motion’.
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6 items
- Identifier:
- HACK/3/1/30