Project Gutenberg 2012-03-14 Public domain in the USA. 253 Bedini, Silvio A. 1917 2007 64062352 Early American Scientific Instruments and Their Makers United States National Museum Bulletin, 231 Produced by Chris Curnow, Hunter Monroe, Joseph Cooper and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Early American Scientific Instruments and Their Makers" by Silvio A. Bedini is a scholarly publication written in the mid-20th century. This work explores the history of scientific instruments used in America during its colonial period, focusing on both the tools and the artisans who crafted them. It seeks to document the evolution of instrument-making in the Americas, providing a comprehensive picture of how these instruments contributed to the development of science and technology in the colonies. The opening of the book introduces the reader to the importance of scientific instruments in early American society, highlighting their dual role as both educational tools and practical devices used by navigators and surveyors. The author discusses the initial reliance on imported instruments from England and France, followed by the emergence of native American craftsmen who began producing their own instruments as communities grew and the demand for such tools increased. Bedini establishes the groundwork for understanding the key figures in this field, the Rittenhouse brothers among them, as well as the broader implications of their work on the practices of science and mathematics that were developing in the New World. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/39141/39141-h/images/icover.jpg en Scientific apparatus and instruments Q Text Browsing: Engineering & Construction Browsing: History - American Browsing: Science - General 609041 609020 2024-09-16T12:18:33.116916 2023-09-17T07:03:14.502249 text/html text/html 607158 2012-03-14T07:35:30 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 2064882 2012-03-14T07:35:38 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 1701440 2024-09-16T12:18:47.219317 application/epub+zip 1709903 2024-09-16T12:18:36.104885 application/epub+zip 170852 2024-09-16T12:18:34.534881 application/epub+zip 1885961 2024-09-16T12:18:53.895294 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1825346 2024-09-16T12:18:45.273867 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 298105 2022-09-18T03:45:25.753103 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 338987 338864 2024-09-16T12:18:30.287921 2023-09-17T07:03:12.027237 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 338865 2012-03-14T07:35:30 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 110246 2012-03-14T07:35:38 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 338872 2012-03-14T07:35:30 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 110216 2012-03-14T07:35:38 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20434 2024-09-16T12:18:54.074280 application/rdf+xml 13425 2024-09-16T12:18:34.812908 image/jpeg 1667 2024-09-16T12:18:34.703873 image/jpeg 2091566 2024-09-16T12:18:33.341891 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia