TENNANT, THOMAS |
USA, c.1822-c.1890, MIM NIM |
Sextant = MYS. |
apprenticed to William J. Young; Tennant was the first in the USA to mass-produce protractors; moved to San Francisco where he made and sold nautical instruments including those made by Young; had John C. Sack as a workman, 1861-88; showed an imported solar compass at th San Francisco Mechanics Institute Fair of 1858; T.C. |
Newburyport, Mass.; at the Sign of the Wooden Sailor, Long Wharf, Battery Street (1849), San Francisco, Cal. |
Smart 1; Bedini 8; D.J. Warner 10; Elgin; RSW. |
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