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Charles sylvester and the great railroad debate

Ian Inkster B.A. Department of Economic History, University of SheffieldView further author information
Pages 113-120 | Published online: 23 Aug 2006

  • 1825 . Proceedings of the Liverpool and Manchester Railroad Bill , 169 – 170 . London : Thomas Davison. Whitefriars .
  • 1911 . Joseph Hunter's Autobiographical Miscellany, MSS , 73 – 73 . R. E. Leader . Shelved in Strong Room, local archives, Sheffield. Sylvester appears to have owed much to the emerging, middle-class scientific culture of Sheffield in the 1790s. For references and fuller details on this, see, Transactions of The Hunter's Archaeological Society, next issue 1971/72, The Development of the Scientific Community in Sheffield, 1790–1850. By Ian Inkster.
  • 1911 . Joseph Hunter's Autobiographical Miscellany, MSS , 73 – 73 . R. E. Leader . Also Liverpool Mercury, 25 January 1828, p. 27. Obituary Notices.
  • 1804 . Nicholson's Journal , 5 : 179 – 179 . 1806, 6, 304: 1808, 8, 50.
  • The Strutt Letters , MSS Derby Central Library . Letter of 23 April 1825.
  • The Strutt Letters , MSS Derby Central Library . Fo 136, 37, 38.
  • For a good example of the variety and intensity of debate, see the exactly contemporary Sandars Joseph Letter on the Subject of the Projected Rail Road between Liverpool and Manchester , 2nd Edn. Liverpool 1824
  • Sylvester was also present at the second deputation to Killingworth of 1824. See Smiles Samuel Story of the Life of George Stephenson , Edn. London 1860 146 60 Also, Proceedings . . 1825 op. cit, Fo 136.

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