1From John Adams to Benjamin Vaughan, [ante 2 April 1787] (Adams Papers)
..., and cannon. Wilkinson supplied the steam-engine cylinders for Matthew Boulton and James...
2From John Adams to John Taylor, 14 December 1814 (Adams Papers)
..., as you build Ships or construct Steam Engines. The Steam Frigate will not defend New York...
3From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 31 August 1808 (Adams Papers)
...all Things at Defyance operated like a Steam Engine to bend the Character of the...
4John 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...
5Thomas Boylston Adams to John Adams, 30 August 1800 (Adams Papers)
...Benjamin Henry Latrobe proposed using steam engines to pump water through a tunnel from the...
6To George Washington from Anonymous, 9 September 1794 (Washington Papers)
...from the most Complicated to the most simple, steam engines &c. and in <force> every engine...
7To 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...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Peter Barlow, 11 November 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
...amount This is particularly the case with the steam engine models which moreover are...
9To 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...
10From John Blanck to John Adams, 12 December 1795 (Adams Papers)
...in raining water from Deep Mines, where Steam Engines are employed, as it will save...