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'Timothy
Hackworth: the man who moved the world ' is a celebration of the work
and pioneering times for the early steam locomotives. A time when for
fifteen years, between 1825 and 1840, Hackworth led the way in terms of
ingenuity, accomplishment, and delivery of locomotive power. The story
embraces three specific aspects of the era - The Adventure in America,
The life of Timothy Hackworth and History of Shildon: the cradle of the
railway.
In
America, Hackworth stood side by side with George Stephenson and
alongside the three American steam locomotive pioneers, lauded for all
that he devised. This edition of the story brings a substantially
extended Afterword, to which is added reprints of a Commemoration of his
life and of the first railway town, Shildon, reaching more than 400
pages with an additional 21 historic images.
The
book is a celebration of the Bi-Centennial Anniversary of the Stockton
and Darlington Railway - the first for public use in the world - an
event as historic and consequential as the first landing on the moon.
The Industrial Revolution was moved into the fast lane. The crucial
history of events that followed has been allowed to bypass Timothy
Hackworth, and lain at the feet of George Stephenson and his son Robert.
It is time that history was corrected and rewritten.
Author
Mike NORMAN has researched records at the National Railway Museum,
Hackworth family records and innumerable digitised files in order to
establish this challenging account of the critical and essential
contribution of Timothy Hackworth. The outcome is a book that is at once
readable and dangerously informative.
