Philadelphia, 1788. At a meeting of the American Philosophical Society, on the 18th of April 1788 : a letter was received from Mr. James Rumsey, of the state of Virginia, accompanied with a drawing and description of an improved boiler for a steam-engine, as also drawings and discriptions [sic] of 1. An improvement in Dr. Barkers' grist-mill. 2. An improvement in the saw-mill. 3. An improvement in raising water by means of a steam-engine.

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	American Philosophical Society
Other Authors:	Ewing, John, 1732-1802
Language:	English
Published:	[Philadelphia] : [publisher not identified], [1788]
Series:	Early American imprints. no. 45218.
Subjects:	Steam-engines > Design and construction. Steam-engines > Early works to 1850. Science > Societies, etc. > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia.
Genre:	Early works to 1850.
Physical Description:	1 sheet (2 unnumbered pages)
Format:	Microfilm Book

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