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Silvio A. Bedini. Early American Scientific Instruments and Their Makers
Early American Scientific Instruments and Their Makers
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
EARLY AMERICAN. SCIENTIFIC. INSTRUMENTS
The Tools of Science
Philosophical and Practical Instruments
The Need for Instruments
Colonial Training in Instrument Making
The Mathematical Practitioners
The Rittenhouse Brothers
Andrew Ellicott
Owen Biddle
Benjamin Banneker
Joel Baily
Reverend John Prince
Amasa Holcomb
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
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
The New Era
The National Collection
Appendix
SURVIVING WOODEN SURVEYING COMPASSES
MATHEMATICAL PRACTITIONERS AND INSTRUMENT MAKERS
MATHEMATICAL PRACTITIONERS AND INSTRUMENT MAKERS
TYPES OF INSTRUMENTS AND THEIR MAKERS
Bibliography of Published Sources
FOOTNOTES:
Index
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Silvio A. Bedini
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Yet it is remarkable that although numerous instruments were produced by native artisans, in addition to the substantial number which were imported before the end of the 18th century, relatively few specimens have survived in public collections as well as in private hands. Despite the exhaustive combing of attics and barns throughout the country by dealers in antiques and by avid collectors during the past several decades, the number of surviving instruments now known is incredibly small in comparison with the numbers known to have been made locally or imported before the beginning of the 19th century. Since instruments are not items which would ordinarily be deliberately discarded or destroyed, or melted down for the recovery of the metal, this small percentage of survival presents a puzzle which has not been resolved.
Figure 5.—David Rittenhouse. Engraving from portrait by Charles Wilson Peale.
