How stick people first migrated into American technical documents:
Sir, I will thank you very much if you will get introduced onto my Draught, a Figure of a Miller standing at the Spout A. viewing the wheat as it runs from the Waggoners Bag --
stooping a little resting hiself with his left hand on the side of the Spout, with his right hand full of wheat looking attentively at it this is the Millers Business in Real Practice and in my opinion will greatly adorn the Drought and convey a Striking Idea".
I am Sir with much Esteem
Your Humble servt
Oliver Evans [1791, qtd. in Brockman, 1998]
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