Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-05-10
PICTURES OF WORK
Of OLIVER EVANS
Prepared at Order of Krebs Chemi-
cal Co. and Presented TO New
ark Public School.

Special Correspondence of Every Evening
Newport. MAY l0-The Krehs Pig |
mcnt 4 Chemical Co, has had reproduced
some pictures of the great work OF Oliver
Evans. who was born at Newport, In the
old house along the Christiana river, now
occupied by the krebs Company. these
pictures were framed, and during the past
week were presented to the Newport |
public school.
The pictures were presented by A. |
Sonnen krehs. Other employees OF the |
company present at the time OF the
prp.rntation were Herbert Fox. Samuel |
'rammanv, Miss Jamison, Miss Work and |
Miss Fdmunds. In presenting the PIC
lures. Mr. Krcbs said:
"Oliyer Evans, one of the most in
eeniouS mechanics that America has ever
produced was born at Newport, Delaware,
In 1855 or 1856 in the old house along the
Christians river, now occupied by the
krcbs Pigment and Chemical Go. He
was the son Of people in very humble
| circumstances
Gle was. in his youth, apprennced 10
| whcelright and soon exhibited great
| mechanical talent and a strong desirc to
| acquire knowledge His attention was, at
/ an early period, drawn TO the possible
! application of the power OF steam 70 use
| fill purposes by the boyish pranks Of one
/ of his comrades. who, placing a small
quantity of water in gun barrel and
/ ramminr down a tight wad, put the barrel
IN the fire Of a blacksmith's forge The
| lorh report which accompanied tho cx-
pul~lon III the wad was AN evidence 20
Young Evans of great and las nc suppos-
I'd previously undiscovered power. sub
| scaucntlv meeting with q description OF
| Newcomer engine. he at once noticed that
the elastic force Of confined steam was
not there utilized Tlc then designed the
non-condenslng engine, IN which the
mower was derived exclusively from the
tension III high-pressure steam, and pro
posed It's application 70 the propulsion oi
carriages.
In 1856 he designed and built an en-
CINE of Six-inchcs diameter oi cylinder
ana Is inches stroke Of piston, which he
applied with perfect success 10 driving a
plaster mill This he called the Colum-
bian engine This engine he perfected
from time 10 time and II Is today fulfilling
the predictions which he made 20 years
ago. when he said j have no doubt that
my engines will propel boats against the
current of the Mississippi. and wagons on
turnpike roads, with great profit. In
rines Will drive boats 10 or - miles an
hour and there will I've hundreds Of steam
crs running on the Mississippi, as pre-
dictcd wears ago
I'm 1904 Evans applied one of his
engines IN the transportation OF large
hat-hottomed craft built on an order OF
the Board 81 Health Of Philadelphia, for
use in clearing some Of the docks along the
water front of the city Mounting II on
wheels. he placed 1t on one Of his 1--WE
horse power engines, and named the odd
machine Oruktor Amphibolis Tins
steam dredging machine, weighing about
10000 pounds was then propelled very
slowly from the works, ZIP Market street,
around To the water works, and then
: / launched into the SchuylkLl. The en-
glne was then applied to the paddle wbee
! at the stern. and drove the craft down the
/ rlver 10 its confluence with the Delaware
t Among other deNsces, the now familiar
Cornish boiler, having a single informa
fiue, and the Lancashire boiler. having :
pair 81 internal flues were planned anC
r used by Evans.
r .Evans never succeeded IN accomplish
:, ing In America az great a success as had re
warded Watt in Great Britain. but he con
tinued ID build steam engines to the end 0
his life. April 10, 1919.
The pictures We're accepted by Charlie
i Garrett on behalf OF the school. 1h
. krebs company is now having picture o
: their factory made, which will be present
ed TO he school.