Early American Scientific Instruments and Their Makers
by Silvio A. Bedini
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About this eBook
- Author
- Bedini, Silvio A., 1917-2007
- Credits
- Produced by Chris Curnow, Hunter Monroe, Joseph Cooper and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- Q: Science
- Subject
- Scientific apparatus and instruments
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 39141
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39141
- Release Date
- March 14, 2012
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.EARLY AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS — EARLY AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS
- 2.Acknowledgments
- 3.Preface — EARLY AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS
- 4.The Tools of Science — Philosophical and Practical Instruments — The Need for Instruments — Colonial Training in Instrument Making
- 5.The Mathematical Practitioners — The Rittenhouse Brothers — Andrew Ellicott — Owen Biddle — Benjamin Banneker — Joel Baily — Reverend John Prince — Amasa Holcomb
- 6.Instruments of Metal — Pre-Revolutionary Immigrant Makers — Post-Revolutionary Immigrant Makers — Native American Makers — New Hampshire — Vermont — Massachusetts — Rhode Island — Connecticut — Ohio — New York — New Jersey — Maryland and Virginia — Pennsylvania
- 7.Instruments of Wood — The Use of Wood — Surviving Instruments — Compass Cards — Trade Signs — The Makers — Joseph Halsy — James Halsy II — Thomas Greenough — William Williams — Samuel Thaxter — John Dupee — Jere Clough — Andrew Newell — Aaron Breed — Charles Thacher — Benjamin King Hagger — Benjamin Warren — Daniel Burnap — Gurdon Huntington — Jedidiah Baldwin — Thomas Salter Bowles
- 8.The New Era
- 9.The National Collection
- 10.Appendix — SURVIVING WOODEN SURVEYING COMPASSES — MATHEMATICAL PRACTITIONERS AND INSTRUMENT MAKERS
- 11.MATHEMATICAL PRACTITIONERS AND INSTRUMENT MAKERS — TYPES OF INSTRUMENTS AND THEIR MAKERS
- 12.Bibliography of Published Sources — FOOTNOTES:
- 13.Index
- 14.Transcriber's Notes
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