1From Benjamin Franklin to Jared Eliot, 13 February 1750 (Franklin Papers)
...William Nelson, “Josiah Hornblower and the First Steam-Engine in America, with some notices of...
...improvements to and uses for the steam engine, improvements to the thermometer and barometer...
3From Benjamin Franklin to Ebenezer Kinnersley, with Associated Papers, 20 February 1762 (Franklin Papers)
...with James Watt in developing the steam engine and provided the working capital that made...
4From Benjamin Franklin to Matthew Boulton, 22 May 1765 (Franklin Papers)
...engineer and the associate of James Watt in developing the steam engine, see above,
5To Benjamin Franklin from Matthew Boulton, [22 February 1766] (Franklin Papers)
...engineer, associated with James Watt in the development of the steam engine, see above,
6From Benjamin Franklin to Matthew Boulton, 19 March 1766 (Franklin Papers)
The model of a steam engine Boulton had asked him to return.
7To Benjamin Franklin from Joseph Priestley, 21 September 1766 (Franklin Papers)
...bent tubes. It has been called the first steam engine. The word is sometimes also used for a...
8To Benjamin Franklin from Francois Willem de Monchy, 4 November 1766 (Franklin Papers)
...of the costs of the parts of the steam engine and its house. It appears to read as...
9To Benjamin Franklin from François Willem de Monchy, 9 January 1767 (Franklin Papers)
...Desaguliers made several improvements in steam engines and evidently worked on one erected to...
10To Benjamin Franklin from Anthony Tissington, 17 May 1767 (Franklin Papers)
That is, steam engines.
11To Benjamin Franklin from William Small, 19 October 1769 (Franklin Papers)
...had recently been associated with James Watt in developing the steam engine. See above,
12Journal of Jonathan Williams, Jr., of His Tour with Franklin and Others through Northern England, [28 May 1771]: résumé (Franklin Papers)
...his momentous partnership with James Watt to produce a workable steam engine.
13To Benjamin Franklin from John Cuthbert, 30 July 1773 (Franklin Papers)
...engine, a forerunner of Watt’s steam engine, is described at length with two full-...
14To John Adams from Thomas Young, 2 August 1775 (Adams Papers)
That is, a steam engine (
15To George Washington from Nicholas Cooke, 30 August 1775 (Washington Papers)
...was a skillful technician interested in architecture, electricity, steam engines, and other...
16To Benjamin Franklin from William Blakey, 9 January 1778 (Franklin Papers)
..., and his specialty is the coal-fired steam engine; he has traveled widely in western...
17Franklin’s Journal, [18 December 1780–29 January 1781] (Franklin Papers)
.... The waterworks were to be powered by steam engines, built according to plans furnished by...
18To Benjamin Franklin from Le Roy, [1781 or after] (Franklin Papers)
...(or “machine à feu,” the common terms for steam engine).
19From Thomas Jefferson to the Rev. James Madison, 2 October 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
...s digester. It would have been better called the Steam engine. The force of the steam of water...
20Memorandum Books, 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
had viewed the two immense single-acting Watt steam engines which supplied the
21John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams 2d, 15 March 1786 (Adams Papers)
...many innovations to improve and utilize the steam engine, and received several patents. In...
22To John Adams from Benjamin Vaughan, 20 April 1786 (Adams Papers)
for grinding corn by means of the steam engine, as difficulties have been feared respecting
23From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Thomson, 22 April 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
for grinding corn by means of the steam engine, as difficulties have been feared respecting
24From Thomas Jefferson to John Page, 4 May 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
...new, was the application of the principle of the steam-engine to grist mills. I saw 8. pr....
25From Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, 1 February 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
...required to perfect the application of the steam engine to coining,” wrote James Watt of...
26Notes of a Tour into the Southern Parts of France, &c., 3 March–10 June 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
...at Nismes a grist mill worked by a steam engine, which pumps water from a lower into...
27From John Adams to Benjamin Vaughan, [ante 2 April 1787] (Adams Papers)
..., and cannon. Wilkinson supplied the steam-engine cylinders for Matthew Boulton and James...
28To Thomas Jefferson from Francis Hopkinson, 8 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
...go forward with Oars, worked by a Steam Engine. He has made several unsuccessful attempts,...
29To George Washington from Thomas Johnson, 16 November 1787 (Washington Papers)
...through the water by the Force of Steam Engines—I have found a Necessity to mention...
30To John Adams from Patrick Miller, 19 November 1787 (Adams Papers)
...my intention to make an Experiment with the Steam Engine as a Power to work my Water Wheel...
31To Alexander Hamilton from John Fitch, 29 January 1788 (Hamilton Papers)
...in experiments in learning to make a Steam Engine that being so useful a Machine for...
32To George Washington from James Rumsey, 15 May 1788 (Washington Papers)
...description of an improved boiler for a steam engine, as also drawings and descriptions” of...
33To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Vaughan, 11 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
...obtain patents for a new boiler to the steam engine and for the application of steam to the...
34From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Paine, 23 December 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
...of this country by the aid of the steam engine. This interests Mr. Rumsey who had hoped...
35To Thomas Jefferson from Jean Baptiste LeRoy, [30 April 1789] (Jefferson Papers)
..., who inspected one of Rumsey’s steam engines that had been erected in Paris to demonstrate...
36To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Willard, 16 January 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
...multitubular boiler, an improved double-acting steam engine, and a chain wheel method of...
37To John Adams from Richard Cranch, 22 January 1790 (Adams Papers)
..., which included improvements on the steam engine. Members of the House referred...
38To George Washington from Benjamin Lincoln, 23 January 1790 (Washington Papers)
the steam engine the machinery
39To George Washington from John Bailey, 17 April 1790 (Washington Papers)
...the result of one hours work by the steam engine I should have been enabled to have drawn...
40To George Washington from James B. Pleasants, 5 May 1790 (Washington Papers)
...d to apply the force: in a Common Steam Engine the force is communicated by the recuring movem...
41To Thomas Jefferson from James B. Pleasants, 5 May 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
...d to apply the force: in a Common Steam Engine the force is communicated by the recuring...
42John Stevens to the Patent Board, [10 May 1791] (Jefferson Papers)
...for a patent for “an improvement on the steam engine, which he has invented, by a new...
43To Thomas Jefferson from Tobias Lear, with List of Patents, 30 August 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
1 to Englebert Cruse for improvements on Savery’s steam engine...of a boiler in a steam engine...
44To George Washington from Henry Voigt, 13 April 1792 (Washington Papers)
...with him in 1792 to manufacture steam engines, a project which proved to be......Steam Engine,...
45To Thomas Jefferson from John Fitch, 24 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
...because he was totally ignorant of steam engines being developed in England; urging...
46Petition of Oliver Evans to the Patent Board, [ca. 1 December 1792] (Jefferson Papers)
...simple and Cheap manner By means of steam engines of his own invention of a peculiar...
47To Thomas Jefferson from John Brown Cutting, 24 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
...invention he has finish’d his nautical steam-engine. He had completed its mechanism...
48To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Digges, 10 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
...thousands. The whole machine is moved by an improvd steam Engine which rolls the Copper for...
49To Thomas Jefferson from John Bowman, 14 October 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
, containing a rough draught of a steam Engine, by Mr. Lucas, a most ingenious and Worthy...
50From Thomas Jefferson to John Bowman, 6 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
...several applications already for pat[ents] for steam engines but none of them I think would...