1David K. Hopkins to Thomas Jefferson, 3 November 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
...motion aught to be communicated by the Screw or, circularly inclined plane.—with water I...
2To Benjamin Franklin from Timothy Lane, 15 October 1766 (Franklin Papers)
a Screw which passes through the Brass Work near the Bottom and......the Screw H to move in...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Ezra Stiles, 17 July 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
...the principle of his own invention. It is a screw with a very broad thin worm, or rather...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 10 November 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
...of the Nibs, but any contrivance of adding the Screw which I have yet though off, will either...
5From Benjamin Franklin to Hughes and Co.: Directions for Making a Musical Instrument, [1762] (Franklin Papers)
...Margin with an upright Iron Rod, on which was a Screw from End to End; The Rod turn’d on...Screws
6Jefferson’s Notes on Macaroni, [after 11 February 1789] (Jefferson Papers)
...through which the paste, when pressed by the screw DEF, comes out, and forms the Maccaroni g...
7An Account of the New Invented Pennsylvanian Fire-Places, [15 November 1744] (Franklin Papers)
...their Places, a Pair of slender Rods with Screws, are sufficient to bind the Whole very firmly...
8Thomas Jefferson to John Staples, 25 January 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
screws for crushing the ear of corn, cob & all......called the screw mill for breaking and...
9To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 2 July 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
...machine I now write with. Knowing that wood screws would not have a sufficient holt to fasten...
10From Thomas Jefferson to Hugh Williamson, 6 February 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
.... It is nothing more than the application of the screw to the air, water or any other fluid....