Early American Scientific Instruments and Their MakersBedini, Silvio A.
History
Early American Scientific Instruments and Their Makers
Bedini, Silvio A.
Scientific apparatus and instruments
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[8] HINDLE, op. cit. (footnote 6).
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[14] ROBERT P. MULTHAUF, ed., "Holcomb, Fitz, and Peate; Three 19th
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[15] _New York Gazette, Revived in the Weekly Post-Boy_, January 23,
1749.
[16] CARL BRIDENBAUGH, _The Colonial Craftsman_ (New York: New York
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[17] ALFRED COXE PRIME, _The Arts and Crafts of Philadelphia, Maryland
and South Carolina, 1786-1800_ (The Walpole Society, 1929), p. 230.
[18] PENROSE R. HOOPES, _Connecticut Clockmakers of the Eighteenth
Century_ (New York: Dodd Mead & Co., 1930), p. 86; _The Norwich
Courier_, February 10, 1802.
[19] HARROLD E. GILLINGHAM, "Some Early Philadelphia Instrument Makers,"
_The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography_ (1927), vol. 51,
no. 3, p. 303-305.
[20] Ibid., p. 304.
[21] _Charleston Evening Gazette_, July 24, 1785; PRIME, op. cit.
(footnote 17), p. 234.
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