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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

Instruments of Wood

The Use of Wood

Surviving Instruments

The Makers

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

Index