11George Fleming to Thomas Jefferson, 10 February 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
...more simple than the construction of a steam engine for all, perhaps more domestic purposes...
12To 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...
13To 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...
14Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Waterhouse, 3 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
machines; steam engine [index entry] Newcomen, Thomas; steam engine of [index entry]
15To James Madison from Oliver Evans, 8 March 1814 (Madison Papers)
...applying the great elastic power of Steam to Steam engines) by applying one of his engines to...
16William Cooper to Thomas Jefferson, 24 November 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I purpose to move it by a steam engine of 3 feet cylinder...guns ammunition, steam engine, fuel,...
17Robert Fulton to Thomas Jefferson, 29 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
steam engines,...and perhaps finally for sea service I have combined a Steam engine with this
18From Thomas Jefferson to Robert R. Livingston, 23 February 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
favor on the subject of the Steam engine...have often wished a steam-engine could be adapted....
19George Fleming to Thomas Jefferson, 30 October 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Fleming, George; and steam engines [index entry] machines; steam engine [index entry]
20To Thomas Jefferson from Robert R. Livingston, 4 June 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
...is the sketch of a Steam engine which certainly avoids many of the inconveniences of Docr...
21Petition 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...
22To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Livingston, 26 January 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
...union, than in the invention of the steam engine. Which at once subjects the most powerful...
23William Kean to Thomas Jefferson, 23 July 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
machines; steam engine [index entry] steam engines [index entry]
24Archibald Stuart to Thomas Jefferson, 19 May 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
machines; steam engine [index entry] steam engines [index entry]
25To 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...
26Thomas Cooper to Thomas Jefferson, 17 August 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
...concomitantly all the knowledge necessary to the Steam engine; all the accurate and scientific...
27John 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...
28To Thomas Jefferson from Oliver Evans, 24 December 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
...printed “short description of the principles of Steam Engines” for the information of senators...
29To Thomas Jefferson from Apollos Kinsley, 22 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
...press, and reportedly experimented with steam engines and constructed a working model...
30To 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,...
31Oliver Evans to Thomas Jefferson, 7 January 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
...he became engrossed in designing steam engines and steam-powered land carriages. Ridiculed for...
32To 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...
33Thomas Jefferson to William Kean, 4 August 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
machines; steam engine [index entry] steam engines [index entry]
34To 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...
35To Thomas Jefferson from Richard Claiborne, 12 December 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
...force to render the invention publicly useful. The steam engine is my aim—and tho’ it has...
36Benjamin Waterhouse to Thomas Jefferson, 14 September 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
...complete operation, the British invention of the steam engine for freeing a mine, belonging to...
37To James Madison from James Justus, 4 January 1814 (Madison Papers)
...two hundred tons of Iron in it and the Steam Engines, suppose three at $5000, each to be $...
38To 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
39To 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...
40To Thomas Jefferson from Oliver Evans, 13 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
...into use there one of my improved steam engines which would prove not only of great...
41James Oldham to Thomas Jefferson, 15 June 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
machines; steam engine [index entry] steam engines [index entry]
42To 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...
43James B. Pleasants to Thomas Jefferson, 28 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
machines; steam engine [index entry] steam engine [index entry]
44To James Madison from Samuel Morey, 5 September 1802 (Madison Papers)
...was awarded a patent in 1803 for improvements on a steam engine.
45To John Adams from Richard Cranch, 22 January 1790 (Adams Papers)
..., which included improvements on the steam engine. Members of the House referred...
46John Guillemard to Thomas Jefferson, 28 October 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
...new method of water wheels moved by a steam Engine. This mode of navigation will soon be...
47Josephus B. Stuart to Thomas Jefferson, 27 January 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
machines; steam engine [index entry] steam engines [index entry]
48From Thomas Jefferson to Robert R. Livingston, 14 December 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
on the subject of the steam engine, I took the liberty of laying before the American...steam engine
49To 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,...
50To 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...
51To Benjamin Franklin from Matthew Boulton, [22 February 1766] (Franklin Papers)
...engineer, associated with James Watt in the development of the steam engine, see above,
52Enclosure: Oliver Evans’s Petition to the United States Congress, [by 28 December 1813] (Jefferson Papers)
...broader concerns, did extend his patent on steam engines an additional seven years beyond its...
53To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin H. Latrobe, 9 November 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
The Gentleman who erected the Steam engines of the Waterworks contracted for the use of all the...
54From Thomas Jefferson to Robert R. Livingston, 2 [September] 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
...great pleasure your description of the steam engine. whether mercury by attrition with steam...
55To 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...
56To Alexander Hamilton from Jacob Mark and Company, [11 December 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
...Nelson, “Josiah Hornblower, and the First Steam-Engine in America, with Some Notices of...
57To James Madison from James Ross, 19 February 1816 (Madison Papers)
...whole machinery in our factory, including the Steam-engine that works it has been made in...
58To James Madison from Isaac Briggs, 11 October 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
...are a specification of an improvement in the steam engine for which Samuel Briggs, Jr.,...
59William A. Burwell to Thomas Jefferson, 26 February 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Graham, Mr.; steam engine of [index entry]
60To 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-...