1April 3d. 1754. (Adams Papers)
...Cheifly in use in Common life, such as, the lever, pulley, Ballance axis in peritrocheo,
2April 5th. 1754. (Adams Papers)
and the 3 species of lever’s continued to which (viz) the lever he referred allmost all the...
3[A Letter to Richard Cranch about Orlinda, a Letter on Employing One’s Mind, and Reflections on Procrastination, Genius … (Adams Papers)
...End, a great Number and Variety of Wheels, Levers, Pullies, Ropes &c. has a great Mechanical...
4[January 1766] (Adams Papers)
...Combination of Weights, Springs, Wheels and Levers, calculated for certain Uses and Ends...
5Saturday. Jany. 18th. 1766. (Adams Papers)
...Combination of Weights, Springs, Wheels and Levers, calculated for certain Uses and Ends...
6III. The Earl of Clarendon to William Pym, 27 January 1766 (Adams Papers)
...is a certain combination of weights, wheels and levers, calculated for a certain use and end,...
Priest 30 Jany. 1771. took lever out of Prescotts Gate, and tossed it into the......Lever, Joel...
8John Adams to Abigail Adams, 10 May 1777 (Adams Papers)
...he afterward found it incorporated in Sir Ashton Lever’s private museum in Leicester House,...
9John Adams to Abigail Adams, April – May 1780 (Adams Papers)
...it passed into the hands of Sir Ashton Lever and became part of the Leverian Museum...
10[October 1783] (Adams Papers)
I visited Sir Ashton Lever’s museum [4 Nov.], where was a wonderful...