Early American Scientific Instruments and Their Makers

by Silvio A. Bedini

[7] LeRoy E. Kimball, "James Wilson of Vermont, America's First Globe Maker," Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society (April 1938), p. 31.

[8] Hindle, op. cit. (footnote 6).

[9] George H. Eckhardt, Pennsylvania Clocks and Clockmakers (New York: Devin-Adair Co., 1955), p. 190.

[10] Catherine Van C. Mathews, Andrew Ellicott, His Life and Letters (New York, 1908).

[11] John H. B. Latrobe, "Memoir of Benjamin Banneker," Maryland Colonization Journal (Baltimore, May 1845); Philip LePhillips, "The Negro, Benjamin Benneker," Records of the Columbia Historical Society (1916), vol. 20.

[12] Arthur E. James, Chester County Clocks and Their Makers (West Chester, Pa.: Chester Historical Society, 1947), pp. 29-39; Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, ser. I, vol. 1, pp. 85-97.

[13] Dirk J. Struik, Yankee Science in the Making (Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1948), pp. 47, 70-71.

[14] Robert P. Multhauf, ed., "Holcomb, Fitz, and Peate; Three 19th Century American Telescope Makers" (paper 26 in Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, U.S. National Museum Bulletin 228, Washington, 1962), p. 162.

[15] New York Gazette, Revived in the Weekly Post-Boy, January 23, 1749.

[16] Carl Bridenbaugh, The Colonial Craftsman (New York: New York University Press, 1950), pp. 160-161; Isaac Q. Leake, Memoir of the Life and Times of General John Lamb (Albany: Munsell, 1850); Silvio A. Bedini, Ridgefield in Review (New Haven: Walker-Rackliffe, 1958), pp. 71, 84.