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Early American Scientific Instruments and Their Makers · Silvio A. Bedini — chapter 21 of 70 · ~273 words · public domain

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Worth Shampeny * * * * * Jedidiah Baldwin of Hanover, N.H. (c. 1777-1829)

South Natick Apple or 13-16 * * 4-7/8 John Dupee of Historical walnut Boston (after Society 1761)

Streeter Coll., Birch 13 6 * 4 Thomas S. Bowles Yale University of Portsmouth, N.H. (c.1765-1821)

Cherry 11-5/6 6 4 * Jere Clough of Boston (18th century)

Cherry 12 6 3-1/2 * Benjamin Warren of Plymouth, Mass. (fl. 1740-1790)

Roleigh L. Cherry 7-1/2 3-3/4 3 * Unsigned Stubbs

Silvio A. Walnut 12 5-3/8 5 4 Thomas S. Bowles Bedini of Portsmouth, N.H. (c. 1765-1821)

Pine 5-3/4 3-1/2 2-1/2 * Unsigned (18th century)

Mahogany * * * * Unsigned (18th century)

Basswood 12 5-3/4 2-3/4 4 Thomas Greenough of Boston (1710-1785)

Birch 18 7-1/2 7-1/2 6 Samuel Thaxter of Boston (1769-1842)

Mahogany 13 7-1/4 4-1/4 6 Samuel Thaxter of Boston (1769-1842)

Yellow 8-1/4 4 * 4-1/4 Benjamin K. Hagger birch of Boston and Baltimore (c. 1769-1834)

Cherry 14 5-1/2 6-3/8 4-3/4 Gurdon Huntington of Windham, Conn. and Walpole, N.H. (1763-1804)

Yale Gallery Mahogany 11-1/2 5 * * Andrew Newell of of Fine Art Boston (1749-c. 1798)

MATHEMATICAL PRACTITIONERS AND INSTRUMENT MAKERS

Alphabetical List

(Asterisk denotes information unavailable.)

Name Period Place Types of instruments

Bailey, John fl. 1778 Fishkill, N. Y. Surveying; surgical

Bailey, John, II 1752-1823 Hanover and Lynn, Surveying Mass.

Baily, Joel 1732-1797 West Bradford, (practitioner) Pa.

Baldwin, Jedidiah c. 1777-1829 Salem, Boston, Surveying and Northampton, Mass.; Hanover, N. H.

Banneker, Benjamin c. 1734-1806 Baltimore (practitioner)

Benson, John fl. 1793-1797 * Optical

Biddle, Owen 1737-1799 Philadelphia (practitioner)

Biggs, Thomas fl. 1792-1795 New York and Surveying Philadelphia

Blakslee, Ziba 1768-1834 Newtown, Conn. Surveying

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