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See also: EVANS, See also:OLIVER (1755–1819) , See also:American mechanician, was See also:born at See also:Newport, See also:Delaware, in 1755. He was apprenticed to a wheelwright, and at the See also:age of twenty-two he invented a See also:machine for making the card-See also:teeth used in See also:carding See also:wool and See also:cotton. In 1780 he became partner with his See also:brothers, who were See also:practical millers, and soon introduced various labour-saving appliances which both cheapened and improved the processes of See also:flour= milling. Turning his See also:attention to the See also:steam See also:engine, he employed steam at a relatively high pressure, and the plans of his invention which he sent over to See also:England in 1787 and in 1794-1795 aresaid
to have been seen by R. Trevithick, whom in that See also:case he anticipated in the See also:adoption of the high-pressure principle. He made use of his engine for See also:driving See also:- MILL
- MILL (O. Eng. mylen, later myln, or miln, adapted from the late Lat. molina, cf. Fr. moulin, from Lat. mola, a mill, molere, to grind; from the same root, mol, is derived " meal;" the word appears in other Teutonic languages, cf. Du. molen, Ger. muhle)
- MILL, JAMES (1773-1836)
- MILL, JOHN (c. 1645–1707)
- MILL, JOHN STUART (1806-1873)
mill machinery; and in 1803 he constructed a steam dredging machine, which also propelled itself on See also:land. In 1819 a disastrous See also:fire See also:broke out in his factory at See also:Pittsburg, and he did not See also:long survive it, dying at New See also:York on the 21st of See also:April 1819.
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