Early American Scientific Instruments and Their MakersBedini, Silvio A.
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Early American Scientific Instruments and Their Makers
Bedini, Silvio A.
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Chandlee & Bros. (fl. 1790-1791), Nottingham, Md.; also made surveying
instruments.
Chandlee, Ellis (1755-1816), Nottingham, Md.; also made surveying
instruments.
Chandlee, Goldsmith (1751-1821), Winchester, Va.; also made astronomical
and surveying instruments.
Chandlee, Isaac (1760-1813), Nottingham, Md.; also made surveying
instruments.
Crow, George (c.1726-1772), Philadelphia; also made surveying
instruments.
DeVacht, Joseph and Francois (fl. 1792), Gallipolis, Ohio; also made
compasses and sundials.
Doolittle, Enos (1751-1806), Hartford, Conn.; also made surveying and
nautical instruments.
Doolittle, Isaac (1721-1800), New Haven, Conn.; also made scientific
instruments.
Doolittle, Isaac Jr. (1759-1821), New Haven, Conn.; also made surveying
instruments.
Gilman, Benjamin C. (1763-1835), Exeter, N.H.; also made mathematical
instruments.
Gilmur, Bryan (fl. end of 18th century), Philadelphia; also made
mathematical instruments.
Harland, Thomas (1735-1807), Norwich, Conn.; also made surveying
instruments.
Heisely, Frederick A. (1759-1839), Frederick, Md.; also made
mathematical and surveying instruments.
Heisely, George (1789-1880), Harrisburg, Pa.; also made mathematical
instruments.
Hoff, George (1740-1816), Lancaster, Pa.; also made surveying
instruments.
Huntington, Gurdon (1763-1804), Windham, Conn., and Walpole, N.H.; also
made surveying and other instruments.
Kennard, John (1782-1861), Newmarket, N.H.; also made surveying
instruments.
Mendenhall, Thomas (fl. 1775), Lancaster, Pa.; also made mathematical
instruments.
Miller, Aaron (fl. 1748-1771), Elizabethtown, N.J.; also made compasses
and surveying instruments.
Platt, Benjamin (1757-1833), Danbury, Litchfield, and New Milford,
Conn.; Lanesboro, Mass.; Columbus, Ohio; also made compasses and
surveying instruments.
Pope, Joseph (1750-1826), Boston; also made scientific instruments.
Sibley & Marble (Clark Sibley and Simeon Marble) (late 18th century),
New Haven, Conn.; also made mathematical instruments.
Sower, Christopher (c. 1724-1740), Germantown and Philadelphia, Pa.;
also made mathematical instruments.
Voigt, Henry (1738-1814), Philadelphia; also made astronomical
instruments.
White, Peregrine (1747-1834), Woodstock, Conn.; also made surveying
instruments.
Witt, Christopher (practitioner) (fl. 1710-1765), Germantown, Pa.; also
made mathematical instruments.
MATHEMATICAL (GENERAL)
Condy, Benjamin (fl. 1756-1792, d. 1798), Philadelphia.
Dabney, John, Jr. (fl. 1739), Boston.
Dakin, Jonathan (fl. 1745), Boston; also made balances.
Davenport, William (fl. 1800-1820), Philadelphia; also made surveying
instruments.
Doolittle, Isaac (1721-1800), New Haven, Conn.; also made clocks.
Emery, Samuel (late 18th century), Salem, Mass.
Evans, George (fl. 1796, d. 1798), Philadelphia.
Fairman, Gideon (1774-1827), Newburyport, Mass.
Gilman, Benjamin C. (1763-1835), Exeter, N.H.; also made clocks.
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