Talk:Oliver Evans
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"The Watt of America"
editIs there a citation for this quote? I see him as very different to Watt and really rather closer to being "the Trevithick of America", with their shared push for higher working pressures. Andy Dingley (talk) 13:41, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
- Yes, if you have a look at the uncropped version of the portrait you will see the phrase at the bottom there. I have no information on who exactly first coined the term (after my work on Evans I would not be surprised if the inventor himself suggested it), but nevertheless if you Google "The Watt of America" you will see the saying has stuck and it's even an official variant term for Evans at the Library of Congress. Regardless of the fact that you are quite right in that it is probably not a very apt comparison. Unus Multorum (talk) 21:16, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
Missing words
editAt Oliver Evans#Developing the High-Pressure Steam Engine, 1801–1806 Each valve independently operated one of four cams - should this be Each valve was independently operated by one of four cams --Redrose64 (talk) 14:11, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
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problematic article
editthe wordage used in this article is not encyclopedic.
we're going to rewrite it and remove the purple prose. Augmented Seventh (talk) 15:14, 1 May 2024 (UTC)