SHAW, ROBERT LUDLOW |
USA, 1813-76, MIM NIM OIM PHIM SIM |
Barometer = P.C. (1988); Octant = MYS; Telescopes = MYS, Decatur House, Washington, D.C.; Marine Compasses = MYS, Philadelphia Maritime Museum, D.(1971); Sextant = MYS. |
may have been apprenticed to John H. Wheeler; Shaw and Addington D. Frye succeeded Wheeler in 1836 as Frye and Shaw, which see; the partnership lasted until 1845; the firm had a Ramsden-type dividing engine. |
222 Water Street (1836-76); also at 119 Beekman 1858-67); 110 Wall Street (1876); all in New York, N.Y. |
Smart 1; Preuss and Treworgy 2; Moskowitz 102; USNM; D.J. Warner 10; RSW. |
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