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.
| Uniform Title: | Early American imprints.
First series ; no. 45218. |
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| Language: | English |
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[Philadelphia] :
[publisher not identified],
[1788]
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| Series: | Early American imprints.
no. 45218. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 sheet (2 unnumbered pages) |
| Format: | Microfilm Book |
| Note: | Excerpt from the minutes, containing a brief report of the committee appointed to examine the drawings of Rumsey's inventions. With an added note by Rumsey, dated May 10, 1788, on John Voight's pipe boiler. Signed on page [2]: John Ewing, David Rittenhouse, Robert Patterson. Extract from the minutes, Samuel Magaw, one of the secretaries. Microform. |
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| Call Number: | 1 Microprint 1st Ser. no.45218 |
| References: |
Bristol B6660.
Shipton & Mooney 45218.
Rink, E. Technical Americana, 2921.
Rink, E. Technical Americana, 3575. |
| Reproduction Note: |
Microopaque. Worcester, Mass. : American Antiquarian Society, 1955-1983. 23 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 45218). |
| Place of Publication: | United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |