Early American Scientific Instruments and Their MakersBedini, Silvio A.
History
Early American Scientific Instruments and Their Makers
Bedini, Silvio A.
Scientific apparatus and instruments
[119] Information from Mr. C. E. Smart, of W. & L. E. Gurley, Troy, New
York.
[120] PENROSE R. HOOPES, _Shop Records of Daniel Burnap, Clockmaker_,
(Hartford: Connecticut Historical Society, 1958), pp. 63-66.
[121] HOOPES, op. cit. (footnote 18), pp. 92-93.
[122] _Memoirs of the Huntington Family Association_ (Hartford, Conn.,
1915), Index no. 1.3.4.4.2.4.
[123] PALMER, op. cit. (footnote 34), p. 143.
[124] Correspondence with Mr. Ray Brighton, Portsmouth, N. H.
[125] CHARLES W. BREWSTER, _Rambles about Portsmouth_ (Portsmouth, N.
H.: L. W. Brewster, 1859, 1873), ser. 1, pp. 165, 329.
[126] CHARLES W. BREWSTER, _Rambles about Portsmouth_ (Portsmouth, N.
H.: L. W. Brewster, 1869), ser. 2, pp. 27, 90, 93, 136, 233, 263, 277,
316, 322, 367.
[127] Information from Prof. Alfred F. Whiting, Dartmouth College
Museum.
[128] REV. JAMES HILL FITTS, _History of Newfields, New Hampshire,
1638-1911_, (Concord: Rumford Press, 1912).
[129] PRICE, op. cit. (footnote 1), p. 64.
[130] The full title is _The Journal of Andrew Ellicott, Late
Commissioner on behalf of the United States During Part of the Year
1796, the Years 1797, 1798, 1799 and Part of the Year 1800 For
Determining the Boundary Between the United States and the Possessions
of His Catholic Majesty in America._ It was published by Budd and Barton
for Thomas Dobson at "the Stone House, No. 41 South Second Street" in
Philadelphia in 1803.
Index
Abbott, Katherine M., 98
Adams, Augustus, 99
Adams, George, 131, 134, 136
Allen, John Johnson, 148
almanac, 22, 24, 25
American Antiquarian Society, 38, 112
American Philosophical Society, 11, 12, 16, 21, 22, 24
Amherst College, 26
_Annals of Salem_, 43
_Antiques_, 43, 45
apparatus, scientific teaching, 3
astronomical observatory, 15, 24
Atwell, George, 10
backstaff, 58, 96, 139
Backus, Ebenezer, 120
Bailey, Calvin, 39
Bailey, John, 39, 51, 155, 162, 169, 170
John II, 39, 155, 161, 170
Lebbeus, 39
Baily, Joel, 21, 22, 24, 155, 164
Baldwin, Jabes, 123
Jedidiah, 123, 124, 154, 155, 160, 162, 170
Jeduthan, 94
Ballard, Mehitable, 109, 110
Samuel, 109
William, 109, 110
_Baltimore American & Commercial Advertiser_, 110
Banks, Sir Joseph, 140
Banneker, Benjamin, 22, 23, 24, 25, 155, 160
Barclay, Thomas, 146
Bardin, W. & T. M., 131, 141, 142, 143
barometer, 31, 32, 33
Bassett, Preston R., 74, 75, 153
Bedini, Silvio A., 29, 113
_Banneker's_ ... _Almanac and Ephemeris_, _For_ ... 1792, 24, 25
Bennet, N., 131
Benson, John, 28, 155, 169
Bentley, William, 36, 37
Bethune, Nathaniel, 87
Biddle, Owen, 21, 22, 24, 155, 163
Biggs, Thomas, 59, 155, 162, 163, 170
Bion, Nicolas, 10
Blakslee, Ziba, 47, 155, 160, 170
Blundy, Charles, 29, 155, 165, 166
_Boston Annual Advertiser_, 99
_Boston Evening Post_, 27
_Boston Gazette, The_, 6, 27, 38, 39, 40, 82, 87, 95, 105
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