11From 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...
12From 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...
13To John Adams from Charles Holt, 27 August 1820 (Adams Papers)
...equilibrium in the works of nature. And in mechanics and in politics, by the Universal Law, from the balance-wheel of a watch, the pendulum of a clock, and the Fly-wheel of a steam engine, to the organization of a criminal court by grand and petit juries and the government of a state or empire by a division of powers into legislative, judicial and executive branches, with the additional...
14To Alexander Hamilton from John Fitch, 29 January 1788 (Hamilton Papers)
...exausted considerable sums of money in forming a Boat to be propelled by the force of steam a considerable part of which has been expended in experiments in learning to make a Steam Engine that being so useful a Machine for most great works, I humbly flatter myself it is deserving the notice of Congress and that it will in time superceed the greatest part of Water works as well as all...
15To Alexander Hamilton from Jacob Mark and Company, [11 December 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
...of Bergen County, New Jersey, Jacob Mark, and Nicholas J. Roosevelt of New York formed the New Jersey Copper Mine Association in the hope of reviving the mine. See William Nelson, “Josiah Hornblower, and the First Steam-Engine in America, with Some Notices of the Schuyler Copper Mines at Second River, NJ.,”
16From Benjamin Franklin to Jared Eliot, 13 February 1750 (Franklin Papers)
(London, 1775), p. 57. William Nelson, “Josiah Hornblower and the First Steam-Engine in America, with some notices of the Schuyler Copper Mines at Second River, N.J.,” 2 N.J. Hist. Soc.
17From Benjamin Franklin to Ebenezer Kinnersley, with Associated Papers, 20 February 1762 (Franklin Papers)
’s visit founded the important works at Soho. Subsequently he became associated with James Watt in developing the steam engine and provided the working capital that made Watt’s great achievement possible. He had many scientific interests and was elected F.R.S. in 1785.
18To Benjamin Franklin from [Keane] Fitz Gerald and [Charles] Morton, [1759–1775?] (Franklin Papers)
The first of these men may have been Keane Fitz Gerald, or Fitzgerald, of Poland St., London, F.R.S., 1756, who contributed papers on such diverse subjects as improvements to and uses for the steam engine, improvements to the thermometer and barometer, and methods of “checking the too luxuriant Growth of Fruit-Trees”;
19From Benjamin Franklin to Matthew Boulton, 22 May 1765 (Franklin Papers)
For Boulton, the Birmingham engineer and the associate of James Watt in developing the steam engine, see above,
20To Benjamin Franklin from Matthew Boulton, [22 February 1766] (Franklin Papers)
On Matthew Boulton, Birmingham engineer, associated with James Watt in the development of the steam engine, see above, a model of the steam engine in its then state of development.