1From John Adams to Benjamin Vaughan, [ante 2 April 1787] (Adams Papers)
John Wilkinson (1728–1808), of Clifton, England, was an ironmaster and industrialist who manufactured blast furnaces, cylinders, and cannon. Wilkinson supplied the steam-engine cylinders for Matthew Boulton and James Watt’s Albion Mill, which
2From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 31 August 1808 (Adams Papers)
...in him so very much Superiour to Dumourier or Pichegru, or several others, of the Generals now under him. The Impetus of the Revolution, Setting all Things at Defyance operated like a Steam Engine to bend the Character of the french Soldiers to the Severest military discipline the World ever witnessed. All this was done and the french Nation and Armies formed by the national assemblies...
3From John Adams to John Taylor, 14 December 1814 (Adams Papers)
Study Government, as you build Ships or construct Steam Engines. The Steam Frigate will not defend New York, if Nature has not been studied and her Principles regarded. And how is the nature of Men and of Society and of government to be Studied or known but in...