reverse the valves, and thus reverse the engine. Stevenson saw the worth of the invention at once and showed a sense of ingratitude by immediately patenting the invention, and which is known even at the present day as the “Stevenson Link Motion”; Jackson getting neither credit or cash from this invention.

Jackson was so annoyed at Stevenson’s act, that, to show his inventive superiority, he set himself the task of producing a model locomotive that travelled 25 feet forward, stopped, reversed itself, then travelled 25 feet back, reversed, and continued this whilst steam was up; this was considered wonderful in these early times

Jackson also constructed a most wonderful clock, which, from information I received in 1906 from one of the masters at the Wylam School, is still in Wylam Hall, and working. My father saw this clock, which was ^^is about the same ^^the size of a Grandfather clock; about 1873; it stood on the first landing of the grand staircase of the Hall. He looked through the glass in front, but all he could see was a chain running down one side and up the other; there was no pendulum, and no sound came from the clock; the face was the same as a grandfather clock.

Jackson constructed this clock entirely himself and secretly; when it was finished or nearly so, he informed a young man, who was very much interested in him, a Mr Atkinson (if my memory serves me right) son of Mrs Atkinson of Wylam Hall, a magistrate of Newcastle. This young man had been or was receiving a marine training as an engineer. [Dr John Ismay Atkinson]) He told his father of this wonderful clock and of the wonderful things Jackson claimed for it.

Jackson consented to start the clock in the presence of a number of influential people, and on the day appointed, the street was full of carriages from the Halls around, and the small room was packed with people eager to see the clock.