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EVANS, OLIVER (1755–1819)

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EVANS, See also:
OLIVER, ISAAC (c. 1566--1617)
OLIVER, PETER (1594-1648)
OLIVER (1755–1819) , See also:

AMERICAN

American mechanician, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

NEWPORT

Newport, See also:

DELAWARE

Delaware, in 1755. He was apprenticed to a wheelwright, and at the See also:

AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of twenty-two he invented a See also:

machine for making the card-See also:

TEETH (O.E. Eel); plural of tooth, O.E. top)

teeth used in See also:

CARDING

carding See also:

WOOL, WORSTED AND WOOLLEN MANUFACTURES

wool and See also:

cotton. In 1780 he became partner with his See also:

BROTHERS, RICHARD (1757-1824)

brothers, who were See also:

PRACTICAL

practical millers, and soon introduced various labour-saving appliances which both cheapened and improved the processes of See also:

FLOUR

flour= milling. Turning his See also:

ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

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 (Lat. adoptio, for adoptalio, from adoptare, to choose for oneself)

adoption of the high-pressure principle. He made use of his engine for See also:

DRIVING (from " to drive," i.e. generally to propel, force along or in, a word common in various forms to the Teutonic languages)

driving See also:

mill machinery; and in 1803 he constructed a steam dredging machine, which also propelled itself on See also:

LAND

land. In 1819 a disastrous See also:

FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

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

April 1819.

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