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Summary
Inscriptions on recto: "Philadelphia March 19th 1810" "Engine Navy Yard Washington" "James Smallman" "20."
Lined with paper on verso.
Reference copy available in LOT 4249.
Forms part of: Benjamin Henry Latrobe Archive (Library of Congress).
Steam Machines, Engines, Locomotives. In 1781 James Watt patented a steam engine that produced continuous rotary motion. Watt's ten-horsepower engines enabled a wide range of manufacturing machinery to be powered. The engines could be sited anywhere that water and coal or wood fuel could be obtained. By 1883, engines that could provide 10,000 hp had become feasible. The steam engine was one of the most important technologies of the Industrial Revolution.
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