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...
2From 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...
3From Benjamin Franklin to Matthew Boulton, 22 May 1765 (Franklin Papers)
...engineer and the associate of James Watt in developing the steam engine, see above,
4To Benjamin Franklin from Matthew Boulton, [22 February 1766] (Franklin Papers)
...engineer, associated with James Watt in the development of the steam engine, see above,
5From Benjamin Franklin to Matthew Boulton, 19 March 1766 (Franklin Papers)
The model of a steam engine Boulton had asked him to return.
6To 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...
7To 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...
8To 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...
9To Benjamin Franklin from Anthony Tissington, 17 May 1767 (Franklin Papers)
That is, steam engines.
10To Benjamin Franklin from William Small, 19 October 1769 (Franklin Papers)
...had recently been associated with James Watt in developing the steam engine. See above,