See also:

• OLIVER, ISAAC (c. 1566--1617)
• OLIVER, PETER (1594-1648)

OLIVER See also:

• EVANS, CHRISTMAS (1766-1838)
• EVANS, EVAN HERBER (1836-1896)
• OLIVER EVANS (1755–1819)
• EVANS, SIR GEORGE DE LACY (1787–1870)
• EVANS, SIR JOHN (1823-1908)

EVANS (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
• MACHINE (through Fr. from Lat. form machina of Gr. µnxavil)

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
• COTTON (Fr. coton; from Arab. qutun)
• COTTON, CHARLES (163o–1687)
• COTTON, GEORGE EDWARD LYNCH (1813–1866)
• COTTON, JOHN (1585–1652)
• COTTON, SIR ROBERT BRUCE

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
• STEAM (0. Eng. steam, vapour, smoke, cf. Du. steam; the origin is unknown)

steam See also:

• ENGINE
• ENGINE (Lat. ingenium)

engine, he employed steam at a relatively high pressure, and the plans of his invention which he sent over to See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England in 1787 and in 1794-1795 aresaid to have been seen by R . Trevithick, whom in that See also:

• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

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
• 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

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, or BROOKE, ARTHUR (d. 1563)
• BROKE, SIR PHILIP BOWES VERE, BART

broke out in his factory at See also:

• PITTSBURG
• PITTSBURG, or PITTSBURGH

Pittsburg, and he did not See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long survive it, dying at New See also:

• YORK
• YORK (HOUSE OF)
• YORK, EDMUND OF LANGLEY, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
• YORK, EDWARD
• YORK, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
• YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

York on the 21st of See also:

• APRIL

April 1819 .