Figure 22. — Great wheel lathe (foreground, 1765-1800) and pole lathe 

 (right background, 1750-1765) from the shop of the Dominy family of East- 

 hampton, Long Island, and now installed in the Henry Francis du Pont 

 Winterthur Museum. Note the two spring poles (one in use) at upper right. 

 Photo courtesv of Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum. 



House which had taken fire, that the old Assistance 

 was got out and did it. ... [16] 



I was going to tell of Mr. Morey's 70 efforts to have 

 one of his interesting engines attached to a hydraulion 

 but in detail it would be too long a story. 



70 Samuel Morey (1 762-1843). George Calvin Carter's 

 Samuel Morey, the Edison of His Day (Concord, N.H.: Privately 

 printed for G. C. Carter by the Rumford Press, 1945) is an 

 inexact, uncritical, and slight work. More solid information 

 is to be found in Dictionary 0/ American Biography. A sketch of 

 Morey's steamboat enterprises is given in Greville Bathe, 

 An Engineer's jXote Book (St. Augustine, Fla.: 1955), pp. 123-144. 



I think the old gentleman came from Hartford. 

 Conn., bringing a working model of what he called 

 by so long a name that I cannot recall it, but the 

 substance was that it was an explosive vapor vacuum 

 engine. The machine he brought had two single 

 acting cylinders about 10 inches in diameter and he 

 used turpentine or any substance that would, at a 

 low temperature, give an inflammable vapor. He 

 claimed that for fire engines, his engine could be put 

 in operation in less than a minute alter lighting his 

 lamps under the vaporizer. 



He exhibited his model propelling a bateau on the 

 Schuylkill and it was then brought to the fire engine 



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