License Granting the Marrietta Steam Mill Company Use of an Oliver Evans Patented Steam Engine, 1812
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In 1804, Oliver Evans received a patent for a high-pressure steam engine -- a radical departure from the early low-pressure engines operating in the United States at the time. Evans found commercial applications in the flour-milling industry, where some of his other innovations had already been influential. One of Evans's patented engines was installed in a steam flour mill in Marietta, Ohio, in 1811.
In 1804, Oliver Evans received a patent for a high-pressure steam engine -- a radical departure from the early low-pressure engines operating in the United States at the time. Evans found commercial applications in the flour-milling industry, where some of his other innovations had already been influential. One of Evans's patented engines was installed in a steam flour mill in Marietta, Ohio, in 1811.
Artifact
License
Subject Date
04 November 1812
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Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
91.0.110.151
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Ink
Technique
Printing (Process)
Handwriting
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 11.625 in
Width: 10.813 in
Inscriptions
at top: The Columbian Steam Engine. text: KNOW all Men by these presents, That I, Oliver Evans, Steam-Engineer, of the city of Philadelphia, have received of The Marriatta [sic] Steam Mill Co. of the state of Ohio county, state of Ohio --- the sum of Four Hundred eighty dollars--- in full payment for a Steam-Engine, and for License hereby granted to the said Marriatta Steam Mill Co., their heirs, executors, administrators and assigns, to use one of my patented Steam-Engines [...]
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