Memoirs of the most eminent American mechanics : also, lives of distinguished European mechanics : together with a collection of anecdotes ... relating to the mechanic arts : illustrated by fifty engravings (1852)
Howe, Henry, 1816-1893, New York Museum of Science and Industry. Library · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 76
nced not to let any obstacleinterfere with the object of his pursuits. His master, an illiterateman, observing his apprentice employing his leisure evenings instudy, through motives of parsimony, forbade him using candles;but young Evans was not to be discouraged, for, collecting at theclose of… … OLIVER EVANS. OLIVER EVANS. 71 of propelling land carriages without animal power; but all themethods with which he was acquainted appearing too futile to de-serve an experiment, he concluded such motion to be impossible forthe want of a suitable original power. But one of his brothersinformed him…
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