Inventor Name
Trist, Nicholas Philip
Repository
University of North Carolina Library
Southern Historical Collection
CB# 3926, Wilson Library
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
919-962-1345
http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/shc
Physical Description
6.5 linear feet
Summary
Chiefly correspondence of the Trist and Randolph families. In subseries 1.6, 1855-1859, there are letters that document Trist’s partnership with Thomas Briggs Smith, inventor of a new kind of rail for railroads.
Finding Aid
http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/t/Trist,Nicholas_Philip