Science/Technology/Inventions
Title | Daily Entry |
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22 April 1792 |
GW at Philadelphia. He dined with twenty-two of the visiting Five Nations chiefs, their interpreter, and Rev. Samuel Kirkland. |
23 March 1792 |
GW at Philadelphia. GW sent the Five Nations a speech, “to cement the peace between the United States and you,” and a white belt of wampum. |
21 March 1792 |
GW at Philadelphia. Thomas Jefferson sent GW his letter to the Commissioners for the District of Columbia, which included Samuel Blodget’s proposed loan to finance projects in the federal city. |
10 February 1792 |
GW at Philadelphia. GW directed his personal secretary Tobias Lear to write to Attorney General Edmund Randolph and offer condolences on the death of Randolph’s sister. |
03 April 1791 |
GW at Mount Vernon. |
20 March 1791 |
GW at Philadelphia. Rodolph Vall-Travers, a Swiss intellectual, wrote to GW offering his services in reporting on the current state of arts and sciences in Europe. |
20 March 1789 |
GW at Mount Vernon. |
25 January 1790 |
GW, in N.Y., wrote in a long diary entry that he received a petition from printer Francis Bailey asking to see his new invention that would prevent the counterfeiting of government documents. |
23 January 1790 |
GW in N.Y. GW wrote in his diary that he went with Mrs. Washington to see the works of John Trumbull, the notable American painter who painted several portraits of GW. |
22 January 1790 |
GW in N.Y. GW wrote in his diary that he exercised with a morning horse ride. GW was impressed by a demonstration of a new wheat threshing machine invented by Friedrich, Baron von Poellnitz. Mrs. |