A history of the growth of the steam-engine (1878)
Thurston, Robert Henry, 1839-1903 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 182
Evans applied one of his engines in the trans-portation of a large flat-bottomed craft, built on an orderof the Board of Health of Philadelphia, for use in clearingsome of the docks along the water-front of the city. Mount-ing it on wheels, he placed in it one of his 5-horse powerengines, and named… … Fia. 47.—Evanss Orufctor Amphibolis, 1804 then launched into the Schuylkill. The engine was thenapplied to the paddle-wheel at the stern, and drove thecraft down the river to its confluence with the Delaware. In September of the same year, Evans laid before theLancaster Turnpike Company a statement…
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