1From 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...
2Memorandum Books, 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
had viewed the two immense single-acting Watt steam engines which supplied the
3From 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
4From 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....
5From 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...
6Notes 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...
7From 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...
8From 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...
9From 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....
10From Thomas Jefferson to Edward Livingston, 30 April 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
...of Roosevelt’s contracts, to supply steam engines for the waterworks that Latrobe was...