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EVANS, OLIVER (17551819)

This article appears in Volume V10, Page 3 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: EUD-FAT
EVANS, OLIVER (17551819) , American mechanician, was born at Newport,
Delaware
 , in 1755. He was apprenticed to a wheelwright, and at the age of twenty-two he invented a machine for making the card-teeth used in carding wool and
cotton
 . In 1780 he became partner with his brothers, who were
practical
  millers, and soon introduced various labour-saving appliances which both cheapened and improved the processes of flour= milling. Turning his attention to the steam
engine
 , he employed steam at a relatively high pressure, and the plans of his invention which he sent over to England in 1787 and in 1794-1795 aresaid
to have been seen by R. Trevithick, whom in that case he anticipated in the adoption of the high-pressure principle. He made use of his
engine
  for driving mill machinery; and in 1803 he constructed a steam dredging machine, which also propelled itself on land. In 1819 a disastrous fire broke out in his factory at Pittsburg, and he did not long survive it, dying at New
York
  on the 21st of April 1819.


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