id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 16354 Various Scientific American Supplement, No. 620, November 19,1887 .txt text/plain 38618 1769 66 BIOGRAPHY--Oliver Evans and the Steam Engine.--The work of this involved the original double acting high pressure steam engine, the which the high pressure steam engine forms the motive power. to this time, been dependent for its raw silk threads upon apparatus the cocoon of many miles of filament in order to produce a single finished, and a basin of heated water in which the cocoons are placed. work required is, in effect, to add an additional cocoon filament to whenever the thread requires a new filament of cocoon, and broken The actual work of supplying the cocoons to the running thread is which the cocoons are charged by a slight current of water, lifts them from one furnace to carry through such a long revolver and do its work great and important works of the present day, whether of docks and to fine powder in an ordinary mill, requiring but small power to work, ./cache/16354.txt ./txt/16354.txt