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Lamb, Anthony (1703-1784), New York; also made mathematical and nautical instruments.

Lamb, John (1735-1800), New York; also made mathematical and nautical instruments.

Miller, Aaron (fl. 1748-1771), Elizabeth, N.J.; also made clocks and directional compasses.

Newell, Andrew (1749-1798), Boston; also made mathematical instruments and directional compasses.

Platt, Augustus (1809-1886), Columbus, Ohio; also made mathematical and surveying instruments.

Platt, Benjamin (1757-1833), Danbury, Litchfield, and New Milford, Conn.; Lanesboro, Mass.; and Columbus, Ohio; also made directional compasses and clocks.

Potter, John (fl. 1785), Brookfield, Mass.

Rittenhouse, Benjamin (1740-c. 1820), Philadelphia; also made astronomical instruments.

Rittenhouse, David (1732-1796), Philadelphia; also made astronomical instruments.

Rittenhouse & Evans (fl. 1770's), Philadelphia.

Stiles & Baldwin (fl. 1791), Northampton, Mass.

Stiles & Storrs (fl. 1792), Northampton, Mass.

Thacher, Charles, probably Boston.

Thaxter, Samuel (1769-1842), Boston; also made nautical and mathematical instruments.

Wall, George Jr. (fl. 1788), Bucks County, Pa.

Warren, Benjamin (fl. 1740-1790), Plymouth, Mass.; also made nautical instruments.

White, Peregrine (1747-1834), Woodstock, Conn.; also made clocks.

Whitney, Thomas (fl. 1798-1821), Philadelphia; also made mathematical and optical instruments.

Williams, William (1737/38-1792), Boston; also made nautical instruments.

Bibliography of Published Sources

ADAMS, GEORGE. Mathematical and geographical essays. London, 1791.

ABBOTT, KATHERINE M. Old paths and legends of New England. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1909.

BABB, MAURICE J. David Rittenhouse. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (July 1932), vol. 56, no. 223, pp. 193-224.

BARTON, WILLIAM. Memoirs of the life of David Rittenhouse, L.L.D., F.R.S. Philadelphia, 1813.

BEDINI, SILVIO A. A compass card by Paul Revere (?). Yale Library Gazette (July 1962), vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 36-38.

BEDINI, SILVIO A. Ridgefield in review. New Haven: Walker-Rackliffe Co., 1958.

BENTLEY, WILLIAM. The diary of William Bentley, D.D. Salem, Mass., 1905.

BION, NICOLAS. Traite de la construction et des principaux usages des instruments de mathematiques. Paris, 1709. Transl. Edmund Stone, London, 1724.