mechanical drawing, Oliver Evans on, 38; full size, 



38, 49, 170; instruction by Mason, xv, 40, 54 

 Meredith, Samuel, builds fire-engine bodies, 44, 49; 



mold maker, 107 

 Merrick, Samuel V., 16, 53, 71, 77 

 Merrick, Agnew and Tyler (firm), 74, 76 

 Merrick and Agnew (fire-engine builders), 3, 16, 19, 



54 n 

 Merrick and Towne (firm), 74 n 

 Merrill & Co. (paper machine builders), 101 

 metalworking (See under boring; casting; coining; 

 copper, drawing; coppersmithing; forging; 

 foundry work; heat-treatment; lathe; planing 

 machine; punch press; welding; wire) 

 Millbank, xvii, 29, 89 (See also Cardington) 

 Miller, Edward, of portage railroad, 154, 159 

 Miller,' Edgar L., 172, 178 

 Miller's pottery works, 14, 93 

 Millholland, James, 171 

 Mint, Royal, in London, 76, 1 1 1 



United States, xvii, 3, u, 15, 32 n, 53, 57, 160; 

 screws for coining press, 31; gold imported in 

 screws, 35; descr. and illustr., 61-78; first 

 mint, 61 , 62; second mint, 62, 67; branch mints, 

 62, 71, 74 

 Mitchell, John K. (lecturer at Franklin Institute), 54 

 Mogeme, Henri, xvi, 74; in Sellers & Pennock shops, 



43 , 46-51 

 Mohawk & Hudson Railroad, 164, 174 

 mold (See papermaking) 

 Mont Cenis Pass, 153 

 Montreal, Quebec, counterfeiters near, 135, 137, 



•39 

 Moore, Samuel (mint director), 68, 70 

 Morey, Samuel, turpentine engine, 43, 45-46; 47 



(illustr.) 

 Morris, Edward [Elwood?], 54 

 Morris, Elwood, 148, 150 

 Morris, Henry, 53, 54 n 

 Morris, Israel, 43 

 Morris, J., and hose, 8 

 Morris, Stephen P., 53. 54 n, 77 and n 

 Morris, William P., and "Hydraulion," 6 n 

 Morris & Essex Railroad, 185, 189 

 Moses (See Williams, Moses) 

 Mount Clare shops, 180, 184 

 Murray, Alexander, commandant Philadelphia Navy 



Yard, 12; and ship pump, 16, 18, 20; capstan 



of, 16, 20-21 

 Murray, George (engraver), 13 n 

 Murray, John (publisher), 123 



Murray, Draper, Fairman & Co. (engravers), 13 



Museum (See under Peak's Museum) 



nails, English and American, 125-126 



Nasmyth, James, 22 and n; on Maudslay, 108-109 



National Road, 143 



Neagle, John, portrait of Pat Lyon, 2, 5, 22 



New Castle & Frenchtown Railroad, 144 



New Orleans Mint, 73 



New York, fire engines, 3 (See also Novelty Works: 



West Point Foundry) 

 New York and Erie Railroad, 168, 171 

 Newsham fire engine, 3 

 Newton and Son (patent firm), 1 18 

 Newton's London Journal of Arts and Sciences, 125 

 Nicholson, John, Operative Mechanic, 19, 22, 23, 40, 91 

 Nortis, William, locomotive on Philadelphia & 



Columbia, 151, 156, 172; locomotive on Belmont 



incline, 152; builds 10-wheel locomotive, 171; 



at America trial, 178; first locomotive, 190-191 

 Nott, Eliphalet, 74, 160 



Novelty Works, New York, 160; planer in, 74 

 Oat, Joseph (brazier), 43, 48 

 oil press, 33 (illustr.) 

 Owen (clockmaker), baits Redheffer, 82 

 Oxford, England, GES visits printery, 1 1 o 

 Page, Charles, electric engine, 132 

 paper cutter, guillotine, 1 20-1 21 

 papermaking, 87-141, passim: mold-making, 89, 



90-95; hand, techniques, 102-104; straw paper, 



106; bleaching, 128; and counterfeiting, 135-141 

 papermaking machinery, Ames-type cylinder, 96, 



99-100, 107 

 beating engine, English, 110 

 cylinder machine development, 96, 98-101, 104 



(See also Dickinson, John; Gilpin, Thomas) 

 drying cylinders, 101, 118, 123-124 

 Fourdrinier machine development, 101, 104, 116 



(See also Donkin, Bryan) 

 Phelps & Spafford, 101, 119 

 pulp dresser, Ibotson, GES sees, 110; described, 



ii8n, 122; infringement on, 128-130; Sellers, 



no, 118; 120 (illustr.), 122, 129 (See also 



Donkin, Bryan) 

 Sellers builds, 100-101, 107, 160 

 Park's Foundry, Kensington, 107 

 Parrish, Rachel B., xvii, 1 73 n 

 Paschall, John, 89 

 Paterson, N. J., Brandt in, 171 (See also Rogers. 



Thomas) 



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