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A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on November 8, 2014. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that other millers viewing the fully-automated flour mill designed by Oliver Evans (pictured) could not appreciate its advantages?
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Source of the Railroad Quote, ca 1814

Writing under the pseudonym of Patrick N. I. Elisha, esq,, Oliver Evans published Patent Right Oppression Exposed, or Knavery Detected, publication listed as "Philadelphia booksellers," 1814. The book is a satire, occasionally compared to Mark Twain. From this comes his famous quotation predicting railroads, often dated as 1812 or 1813. I am in the process of trying to find an affordable copy to verify the source of the extracted on-line versions of this famous quotation. The full version apparently runs four paragraphs, should be nicely past copyright and in public domain, and is so wonderfully visio .... ooops, prophetic that it should be available in the main article so that a solid referenced source is finally readily available. Tomligon (talk) 22:04, 11 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Refrigeration again

@Unus Multorum: I'm curious as to why you deleted the Refrigeration section. I have no axe to grind either way but the info had a reference and seems germane to the topic. ► Philg88 ◄ ^♦talk 16:02, 6 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Philg88: Hi Philg88, actually I did not remove the section on refrigeration as it is very interesting, but I moved to be a subsection under the 1801-1806 period when he first developed the ideas, and added a few more sources to verify the information. Thanks for your interest, I'm going to work on this to get it to GA and perhaps even FA status, so I hope you like the way its going so far! Unus Multorum (talk) 22:13, 6 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Unus Multorum:: Ah ... I see. I've left a comment on your talk page. Cheers, ► Philg88 ◄ ^♦talk 04:11, 7 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

"The Watt of America"

Is 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)[reply]

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)[reply]

Missing words

At 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)[reply]

Yes. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 14:14, 28 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]