Oliver Evans: Inventive Genius of the Ind

by Eugene S. Ferguson, Hagley Museum and Library

B3-1979-1980. Evans 1755-1819 was born in Newport, Delaware, and is known as the inventor of the Automatic Flour Mill and the steam engine. Illustrated. 72 pages. stiff paper wrappers.. square small 8vo..

72 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1980

About the author

Eugene Shallcross Ferguson was an American engineer, historian of technology and professor of history at the University of Delaware. Ferguson obtained his BS in mechanical engineering at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1937, and earned an MS in mechanical engineering at Iowa State College in 1955.

Reviews

[Matthew Laing · Rating 5 out of 5]

A very interesting overview of one very curmudgeonly genius inventor who changed the technological trajectory of America in spite of himself. Also he a built a steam-powered amphibious dredging machine in 1805 before locomotives or steamboats had been invented. Pretty badass.