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Your search for signatures starting with H yielded 1159 entries. Displaying entries 1–1159.Signature | Maker Info | Instruments | Comments | Location | References | Suggest Correction |
H. 1 | Germany?, 1609, MIM | Sundial on Sector = PRA. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction | ||
H. 2 | 17th Century, MIM | Quadrant = Christie 12/17/75. | marked "A" on reverse. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
H. 3 | England, c.1850, NIM | hidden mark on ebony quadrant; possibly Hughes or Heath. | Moskowitz 122. | suggest correction | ||
H. 4 | marked on horizontal sundial, WHI-1191, H [.], on the paper wind rose; sundial plate marked "C.P." (2) and compass card marked "R.G." (1). | Bryden 16. | suggest correction | |||
H.A. 1 | c.1625, MIM SIM | Graphometer = Chevau-Légers 2/28/82; Set-square = Christie 4/3/74. | Hugé. | Versailles. | RSW. | suggest correction |
H.A. 2 | see "H.A. K.M." | RSW. | suggest correction | |||
H.A. K.M. | Germany?, 1576, MIM | Artillery Level and Square, 1576 = DRE; Artillery Level = DRE. | the "H.A." is "H.A." 2; the "K.M." is "K.M." 2. | Drechsler 2; Grötzsch 2; RSW. | suggest correction | |
H.A.S.V.W. | 1675, MIM | Quadrant, ivory, 1675 = WHI-689. | 90 mm radius; not in Bryden 16. | Whipple Cat. 1933. | suggest correction | |
H.A.W. | marked on an alidade signed "Heinrich A. Wolff 1770" at KAS. | Lübke; RSW. | suggest correction | |||
H.B. 1 | Germany, 1490-91, MIM | Astrolabe, 1490 (ICA-248) = OXF; Astrolabe, 1491 (ICA-540) = OLD; Astrolabe, 1491 (ICA-249) = MUN. | see also Johannes Bamman (Smalkaldensis); Michel thought he was Bonetus. | Zinner 1; Michel 2 and 3; Price 1; Evans 1; Rohde; Gunther 1; ICA-2. | suggest correction | |
H.B. 2 | Germany, c.1600, MIM | Diptych Sundial = P.C. | marked "H.L." (1), owner? | RSW. | suggest correction | |
H.B. 3 | Germany, c.1700, MIM | Equatorial Sundial = OXF. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
H.B. 4 | England, c.1760, | marked on the needle clamp of a circumferentor signed "J.A. Spineux." | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
H.B. 5 | c.1900, | Universal Equatorial Sundial = ADL-T19. | made by D.B. Sheahan. | Tomlinson 1; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction | |
H.B.S. 1 | 1609, MIM | Calendar Stick, 1609 = Evans Coll. | Simpson; RSW. | suggest correction | ||
H.B.S. 2 | MIM | Ring Sundial with seal = NOR. | probably owner. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
H.C. 1 | Switzerland, fl.1568-91, MIM | Sundials with compasses on finger rings = NMM-D.99/36-71C, WHI-1714 (FIT) (1568). | inside lid of NMM sundial is marked "MIMR" and "W.P." 2; WHI is marked with "MIMR" and "H.R." 1. | Bryden 16; NMM 2. | suggest correction | |
H.C. 2 | Equatorial Sundial, marked 1591 = ADL-T22. | the work of D.B. Sheahan of New York, N.Y., c.1900; marked "Sir Charles Blunt." | Tomlinson 1; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction | ||
H.C. 3 | Italy?, c.1580, MIM | Magnetic Azimuth Sundial = WHI-1709. | is this the same as H.C. 1.? | Bryden 16; RSW. | suggest correction | |
H.D. 1 | Germany, 1519, MIM | Diptych Sundial, gilt-brass, 1519 = Soth. 6/18/62. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
H.D. 2 | Germany, fl.1590-1601, MIM | Diptych Sundials, ivory = LOU (1590), MERC-75 (1590), MERC-56, Palazzo Madonna, Turin (1595), NMM (1597), ADL-DPW29 (1597), SPL (1601), OXF (1600), OXF, OXF (1595), WRAY, ROM, KEN, BM, Koller 11/17/75, Huelsmann Coll., Bearne's 2/12/92, etc. | the snake was the mastermark of Hans Ducher 2 and 3; the OXF dial and some others also have a distinctive thrush; see Hans Ducher 2 and 3. | Nürnberg. | Zinner 1; Price 2 & 3; Ward 1 & 4; NMM 2; Michel 3; Gouk 1; Syndram; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction |
H.D. 3 | Germany, 1595, MIM | Skaphe Sundial, ivory, 1595 = Koller 11/17/75. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
H.D. 4 | 1770, MIM | Calipers, 1770 = Metalwork Museum, Rouen. | D'Allemagne. | suggest correction | ||
H.D. 5 | c.1900 / z, | Inclinable Sundial = ADL-T66. | the work of D.B. Sheahan, c.1900. | Tomlinson 1; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction | |
H.D.F. | Germany, fl.1618-19, MIM | Cruciform Sundial, 1618 = OXF-G500; Cruciform Sundial, 1619 = VIE-709. | the OXF dial has figures of father time. | Zinner 1; Michel 3. | suggest correction | |
H.E. | initials on quadrant signed "John Chatfield, 1630." | suggest correction | ||||
H.E.S. | Germany, fl.1569-71, MIM | Drawing Instruments, Quadrant and case, 1569 = BEK; Horary Quadrant, 1571 = NUR-WI 12. | Zinner thinks it is Erasmus Hornung; BEK set signed "H. ES." | Zinner 1; RSW. | suggest correction | |
H.F. 1 | Germany, c.1550, MIM | Polyhedral Sundial in the shape of a star = BM. | Augsburg? | Zinner 1; Price 3; Ward 4. | suggest correction | |
H.F. 2 | England?, 1669?, MIM | Gunter's Quadrant and nocturnal, 1669? = Christie 11/8/66, = Soth. 6/24/74 = Haifa Maritime Museum. | Janin 3; RSW. | suggest correction | ||
H.F.V.K. | see H.G.A.V. | suggest correction | ||||
H.G. 1 | Germany, 1537, | "H.G. 1537" is marked on an astrolabe, ICA- 256 (formerly in the Nachet Coll.), which also carries the inscription "Valentinus Sonthalmer Georgio Weinmayster dono 1535." | Gunther 1; Michel 2 and 3; Price 1; ICA 2; MADEX; Nachet. | suggest correction | ||
H.G. 2 | Germany, fl.1562-96, MIM | Diptych Sundial, ivory, 1562, = LIE; Diptych Sundials = MUN, INN, Soth. 11/21/60. | see Hans Gebhart; mastermark is a star; the MUN dial is also signed "H.S.D.L."; "H.G. 1596" is marked on an ivory diptych sundial signed "Johann Gebhart", ADL-DPW21. | Nürnberg. | Zinner 1; Michel 9; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction |
H.G. 3 | Germany, 1567, MIM | Sundial and Compass on inside panel of clock, 1567, = Christie 7/5/66. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
H.G. 4 | Germany, fl.1569-71, MIM NIM | Calendar Plate, 1569 and Hanging Compass, 1571 = DRE; Calendar Plate = HAA. | Hans Göbe? | Zinner 1; Grötzsch 2; Körber 1; Rohde; Michel 3; Drechsler 2. | suggest correction | |
H.G. 5 | Austria, 1575, MIM | Stand for Armillary Sphere, 1575 = KRM. | also signed "Hannss -------DCZINGCK"; surely Hanns Greber of Sterczing. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction | |
H.G. 6 | Germany, fl.1586-95, MIM SIM | Mining Instrument, wood, inlaid with ivory, 1586 = ROU = GRA; Folding Square, ivory and wood, 1587 = BEK; Protractor, wood, 1595 = Leoben Montan Hochschule. | the 1586 instrument is also marked "Hans Resi." | Zinner 1; Michel 3; RSW. | suggest correction | |
H.G. 7 | Germany, 1621, MIM | Artillery Sight, 1621 = LEY; Artillery Level = BASH. | Hans Gruber?; 1621 instrument also marked "J.U.H.Z.E." | Zinner 1. | suggest correction | |
H.G. 8 | MIM | Horizontal Sundial, ivory = DRE. | Grötzsch 2. | suggest correction | ||
H.G. 9A | 1617, MIM | Polyhedral Sundial, silver, 1617 = X. | Evans 1. | suggest correction | ||
H.G. 9B | Germany, 1667, MIM SIM | Circumferentor with Sundial, wood, 1667 = BM. | Zinner 1; Price 3; Ward 4. | suggest correction | ||
H.G.A.V. | MIM | Horizontal Sundial = P.C. | also marked "M.G.G.F.G.", "H.F.V.K." & "G.A.I.G." | RSW. | suggest correction | |
H.G.H. | Germany, 1648, MIM SIM | Sector, 1648 = ADL-M90; Graphometer = Christie 12/18/74 = 4/9/75 =12/17/75; Nocturnal = LUN. | see Hans Georg Hertel. | Augsburg. | Zinner 1; Engelmann 1; Bobinger 2; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction |
H.G.V.B. | Germany, 17th Century, MIM | Horizontal Sundial, string-gnomon, in the form of a finger ring, gold = BM. | Ward did not mention the initials. | Zinner 1; Price 3; Ward 4. | suggest correction | |
H.G.V.G. | misreading for H.G.V.B. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction | |||
H.H. 1 | Germany, 1601, MIM | Table Sundial, 1601 = D.(1976). | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
H.H. 2 | Germany, 1615, MIM | Rule, iron, 1615 = MADEX. | Nürnberg. | MADEX. | suggest correction | |
H.H. 3 | Germany, c.1750, | marked on the gnomon of compass sundial in ivory barrel at WHI, made by "M.V." | Bryden 16. | suggest correction | ||
H.I. | Germany, c.1700, MIM | Sundial in ring = D.(1976). | probably owner. | Brieux 3, 1976. | suggest correction | |
H.I.S. | 1581, MIM | Rule, 1581 = FLO. | Bonelli 5. | suggest correction | ||
H.J. | 1595, MIM | Horizontal Sundial, circular, with compass, 1595 = D.(1974). | the hour scale is incorrect. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
H.K. 1 | Germany, fl.1567-78, MIM | Horizontal Table Sundial, 1567 = OXF; Polyhedral Sundial, 1578 = MUN; Sundial, book-form, 1580 = Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. | Hans Koch; clockmaker; the 1578 sundial has 25 faces. | Munich. | Michel 1 and 3; Price 2; Zinner 1; Uhren Feb., 1990; RSW. | suggest correction |
H.K. 2 | Germany, 1589, MIM | Celestial Globe Chalice, 1589 = NMM. | Frankfort. | NMM 2; RSW. | suggest correction | |
H.K. 3 | Germany, fl.1591-96, MIM | Table Clocks with Sundials = MUN (1591), Michel Coll. (1592), HAK (1596); Sundials in watches = X (1592), Koller 11/17/75 (1592), F. Mallet Coll. | all the sundials, except for the one in the Mallet Coll. are also marked "M.P." (2). | Michel 1 and 3; Evans; RSW. | suggest correction | |
H.K. 4 | England, c.1677, MIM | Gunter's Quadrant = P.C.(1971); Quadrants = ZUS, Soth. 6/9/77. | the quadrant in the private collection has a radius of 3", the initials seem to have been added later, possibly by the owner. | Wynter and Turner; RSW. | suggest correction | |
H.K. 5 | possibly H. Keining or Hans Koch. | RSW. | suggest correction | |||
H.K.R. | Germany?, 1583, MIM | Sundial on Table Clock, 1583 = DRE. | 51° latitude. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
H.L. 1 | the mark appears on ivory diptych sundials signed "H.B." (2). | RSW. | suggest correction | |||
H.L. 2 | 1685, MIM | Horizontal Sundial, 1685 = WHI. | Bryden thought it might be Heinrich van Lennep. | Bryden 16. | suggest correction | |
H.L. 3 | Germany, 1742, OIM | "H.L." (3) is marked on a 1742 telescope at DRE made by J.S. Merklein and J.G. Zimmer; also see Hans Löser. | Reinhartz. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction | |
H.M. 1 | 1507, MIM | Rete of Astrolabe, 1507 = VIE (ICA-599); Astrolabe = BRE (ICA-590). | Zinner 1; Price 1; Michel 3; ICA-2. | suggest correction | ||
H.M. 2 | Germany, fl.1595-97, MIM | Gunner's Compass with Sundial, 1595 = Rosenheim Sale = FIN; Rule, 1597 = AMST. | the signature on the gunner's compass may be "M.H." (1). | Mörzer Bruyns 1; RSW. | suggest correction | |
H.M. 3 | Germany, 1616, MIM | Diptych Sundial, ivory, 1616 = Wunsiedel Fichtelgebirgmuseum. | mastermark is a fleur-de-lys; also marked "P.K." | Zinner 1; Gouk 1. | suggest correction | |
H.M. 4 | Germany, 1744, MIM | Hour Glass, four flasks, 1744 = ADL-M359. | Engelmann 1; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction | ||
H.N.I. | see I.N.H. | RSW. | suggest correction | |||
H.O. | Germany?, 1477, MIM | Pillar Sundial, ivory, 1477 = MUN. | possibly the initials of the owner. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
H.P. | Holland, 1677, NIM | Cross-staff, 1677 = P.C. (1971). | also marked "4" or "7." | Mörzer Bruyns 2. | suggest correction | |
H.R. 1 | Germany?, 1568, | marked on finger ring sundial at WHI signed "H.C." (1) and dated 1568; WHI also marked "MIMR." | Bryden 16. | suggest correction | ||
H.R. 2 | Germany, 1686, MIM | Artillery Level, 1686 = OXF. | the "H." and "R." are conjoined; also marked "M.E." (1), with a crown over the "M". | Maddison 1; Evans 1; RSW. | suggest correction | |
H.S. 1 | Germany, 1560, MIM | Horizontal Sundial, gilt-brass, 1560 = PBN. | Zinner 1; Bobinger 2. | suggest correction | ||
H.S. 10 | could be Henry Sutton, Henry Sneewins or Johann Sommers. | Zinner 1; Evans 1; Bobinger 2. | suggest correction | |||
H.S. 2 | Germany, c.1583, MIM | Sundial in lid of book-shaped box wih watch inside = NYM. | Hans Schniep? | Baillie 1. | suggest correction | |
H.S. 3 | 1587, MIM | Nocturnal, gilt = X. | Van Damme, 10/10/95. | suggest correction | ||
H.S. 4 | Germany?, 1641, MIM | Dividers,three-legged, 1641 = NUR; Dividers, one-handed = NUR. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
H.S. 5 | Holland?; Germany?, 1642, MIM | Compass Sundial, in ivory barrel, 1642 = OXF. | Sneewins? | Zinner 1; Bobinger 2; RSW. | suggest correction | |
H.S. 6 | c.1650, MIM | Diptych Sundial, wood = X. | Henry Sutton? | Evans 1. | suggest correction | |
H.S. 7 | Germany?, MIM | Protractor, wood and ivory = KRE; Diptych Sundial, wood and ivory = NOR. | Zinner 1; Bobinger 2. | suggest correction | ||
H.S. 8 | MIM | Expanded Ring Sundial = Wray-99. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
H.S. 9 | Austria or Germany, c.1690, MIM | Gunnery Level, with case = D.(1993). | Coffeen 43. | suggest correction | ||
H.S.D.L. | this mark appears on an ivory diptych sundial at MUN; see "H.G." 2. | Zinner 1; Price 2; Michel 2. | suggest correction | |||
H.T. | Germany, 1588-1614, MIM | Diptych Sundials, ivory = Koller 11/17/75 (1588), RSM (1612), MUN (1614), WUR (1614), BM, ADL-W35 (1611); Diptych Sundial, ivory and brass = OXF. | Hans Ducher 2 or 3; both used the serpent as a punchmark. | Nürnberg. | Zinner 1; Price 2 and 3; Ward 4; Gouk 1; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction |
H.T.R. | Germany, c.1600, MIM | Diptych Sundial, wood, brass and ivory = OXF. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction | ||
H.W. 1 | Germany?, 1673, MIM | Sandglass, silver, 1673 = NUR? | Lunardi. | suggest correction | ||
H.W. 2 | England, fl.1645-89, MIM | Miner's Compasses and accessories = NMM (1645), OXF (1689). | Henry Wynne? | Taylor 1(266); NMM 2; Maddison 1; RSW. | suggest correction | |
H.W. 3 | Germany?, 1743, MIM | Quadrant, wood and paper, 1743 = HAK. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
H.W. 4 | MIM | Sundial = Christie-SK 11/27/86. | letters stamped. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
H.W./W. | Germany, 17th Century, MIM | Vertical Sundial, oval = BM. | silver volvelle; the dial is marked "H.W." over "W." | Price 3; Ward 4. | suggest correction | |
H.Z.S. | see "F.W. H.z.s." | RSW. | suggest correction | |||
HAAG | France, 1824, MIM | Wall Sundial, 1824 = Saverne. | Saverne. | Rohr 2. | suggest correction | |
HAALSTATT UND TSCHLER | Germany, 1763, PHIM | Hydrometer, 1763 = KRA. | Wagrechteberg. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HAAN, FRIEDRICH GOTTLOB | Germany, 1820, MIM | Terrestrial Globes, 1820 = DRE (2). | Grötzsch 1 and 2; RSW. | suggest correction | ||
HAAS | Switzerland, 19th Century, MIM | Magnetic Compass = Koller 11/17/75. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
HAAS AND CO. | England, pre-1800, MIM OIM PHIM | Steam Jet Cart = University of Pavia. | Jacob Bernard Haas. | London. | G.L'E. Turner 24. | suggest correction |
HAAS AND HURTER | England, fl.1792-95, PHIM | Barometer = DEU; Hydrometer = RSM; Balance = TEY. | Jacob Bernard Haas and Johann Heinrich Hurter; Haas probably worked for Hurter from about 1783, and became a partner in 1792. | Soho, London. | Turner 7; Taylor 2(843a); USNM; Bell 2; Middleton 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
HAAS, JACOB BERNARD | Germany; England; Portugal, fl.1783-1840, MIM NIM PHIM | Electric Machines = TEY, CNAM; Philosophical Instruments = WHI, OXF; Sextant = X; Clinometers = P.C. and Soth. 6/25/68; Protractor = P.C.; Hygrometer and Thermometer = TEY; Ruling Engine, 1798 = DEU; Plane Table, 1806 = COO; Universal Equatorial Sundial, 1809 = COO; Solar Quadrant, 1828 and Universal Ring Dial, 1828 = COO; Solar Microscope, 1840 = TEY; Barometers = COO, DAR; Hygrometer = WHI. | the solar quadrant is for 40° 12'; also made air pumps. | born in Swabia; London (1783-1800); Lisbon (1800-40). | Taylor 2(843a); Daumas 1; Portuguese Inv.; Bell 2; G.L'E. Turner 7 & 24; Middleton 1; A.J. Turner 10; RSW. | suggest correction |
HAAS, JOAO FREDERICO | Portugal, fl.1828-65, OIM | Solar Microscope, 1840 = TEY. | Joa~o Frederico Haas; son of Jacob Bernard Haas. | Lisbon. | G.L'E. Turner 7 and 24. | suggest correction |
HAASE AND WILLHELIM | MIM SIM | Surveyor's Compass = Weschler 5/22/76. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
HAASE, JOHANN GOTTFRIDT | Germany, c.1675, MIM | Astrolabe Clock = Christie 12/5/95. | rete has 16 stars; double rule; tympan; lot no. 83. | Augsburg. | RSW. | suggest correction |
HAASEBROEK, GERRIT | Holland, 1765, MIM NIM | Cross-staves, 1765 = Streekmuseum, Gornedijk, Eisinga's House, Franeker. | made protractors; name sometimes spelt "Hasebroek." | Amsterdam. | Rooseboom 1; Mörzer Bruyns 2; RSW. | suggest correction |
HABERMEL, ERASMUS | Germany; Czechoslovakia, c.1538-1606, MIM SIM | wide range of instruments that may be seen in many museums; these include; astrolabes; globes; sundials; calendars and surveying instruments; the dated instruments range from 1576-1600. | often signed "E.H." the instruments are so famous that they have been often copied; there are many fakes! | Prague (1576-1606). | Eckhardt 3; Michel 1, 3, 4 and 6; Hamilton 1; Maddison 1; Bedini 6; Zinner 1; Rooseboom 1; Grötzsch 2; Körber 1; Sticker and Kirchvogel; Price 1 and 3; Ward 4; ICA 2; NMM 2; USNM; Drechsler 2; Trois Siècles; Brieux 3; Mörzer Bruyns 1 and 2; Engelmann 1; J.A. Bennett 2; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction |
HABERMEL, JOSHUA | Germany; Czechoslovakia, fl.1565-81, MIM SIM | Torquetum, 1576 = DRE; Proportional Compasses, 1577 = PRA; Graphometer = FLO; Diptych Sundial = OXF; Astronomical Compendia = Carl Rolas du Rosey Coll. = TIM, P.C. (2); etc. | see J.H. 1; he was the father of Erasmus Habermel. | Regensburg; Prague. | Zinner 1; Evans; Michel 1, 2, and 3; Gunther 2; Drechsler 2; Rohde; Baillie 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
HABERMEL, MARTIN | see M.H.F. | Evans 1. | suggest correction | |||
HABRECHT AND HEYDEN | France, c.1625, MIM | Pair of Globes = PRA. | Isaac Habrecht 2 and Jacob Heyden | Strasbourg. | Horsky and Skopova; RSW. | suggest correction |
HABRECHT, ABRAHAM | France, 1654-1728, MIM | Astrolabe Clock = Kunstgewerbemuseum, Strasbourg. | Strasbourg. | Zinner 1; Maurice 1. | suggest correction | |
HABRECHT, ISAAC 1 | France, 1544-1620, MIM | Astrolabe Clock, 1578 = TOU; Globe, Celestial, 1574 = STR; Gores for a Terrestrial Globe = STR. | noted clock maker; see J.H. 2. | Strasbourg. | Zinner 1; Baillie 1; Gélis; RSW. | suggest correction |
HABRECHT, ISAAC 2 | France, 1589-1633, MIM | Celestial Globes, 1621 = KAS, KRM, STU, ZUR, NUR, AMSTS, etc; Celestial Globe = KRA; Planiglobiums = LID (1628), DEU (1628), ADL-A304A; Pair of Globes = Drouot 3/8/63; Terrestrial Globes = P.C. (1620), NMM (1625), NYH. | son of Isaac Habrecht 1; ADL planiglobium is a signed manuscript instrument for 50° with parts sewn together. | Strasbourg. | Zinner 1; Yonge; NMM 2; Estreicher 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
HABRECHT, ISAAC 3 | France, 1611-86, MIM | Celestial Globe with clockwork, 1646 = NMM; Terrestrial Globe = NMM. | Strasbourg. | Zinner 1; NMM 2; Tardy 3; RSW. | suggest correction | |
HABRECHT, JOSIAS | France, 1552-75, MIM | Mechanical Armillary Sphere, 1572 = ROS. | brother of Isaac Habrecht 1. | Strasbourg. | Zinner 1; Von Bertele 1; Tardy 3. | suggest correction |
HACHARD | France, 18th Century, MIM | Universal Equatorial Sundial = Soth. 5/25/68; Augsburg-type Sundial = P.C.(1971). | might be one dial. | Besançon. | RSW. | suggest correction |
HACKELMAN, G. | Germany, NIM | Compass = LIE. | Hamburg. | Michel 3 and 9. | suggest correction | |
HACKER, A. | Czechoslovakia, 18th Century, MIM | Augsburg-type Sundial = N.N. Frankel Coll.; Table Sundial = P.C. | Prague. | Baillie 1. | suggest correction | |
HADDARD, W.D. | England, 1846, | designed a protractor. | London. | Price 3. | suggest correction | |
HADDOCK, CHARLES | England, c.1737, MIM | apprenticed to Fisher Combs of the Clockmakers' Company on May 2, 1737. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
HADDOCK, JOHN | England, c.1722, MIM | apprenticed to William Bennett of the Clockmakers' Company on Aug. 23, 1722. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
HADDON, C.W., AND CO. | England, c.1850, PHIM | barometer makers. | King Street, Liverpool. | Bell 2. | suggest correction | |
HADDON, WILLIAM | England, fl.1700-13, MIM | member of the Stationers' Company; had William Barker, Worgan's last apprentice, turned over to him on March 12 1700. | Giltspur Street, near Newgate Street, London. | J. Brown 1; Taylor 1(567); Clay and Court ; Daumas 1; Evans 1; Dewhirst; Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | |
HADEN, WILLIAM | England, 1790, MIM | apprenticed to Thomas Ripley 1 of the Grocers' Company, January 7, 1790. | London. | J. Brown 1. | suggest correction | |
HADERBECK, JOHANN PETER | Germany, 1697, MIM | Artillery Level, 1697 = Huelsmann Coll. | signed "Johannes Petrus Haderbeck me Fecit A. 1697"; also marked "1050" on banner. | Syndram. | suggest correction | |
HADLEY, GEORGE | England, c.1731, NIM | brother of John Hadley; he is supposed to have made an example of Hadley's quadrant in 1731. | Bedini 8. | suggest correction | ||
HADLEY, HENRY | England, c.1731, NIM | brother of John Hadley; made some of his reflecting quadrants, 1731. | A.J. Turner 10. | suggest correction | ||
HADLEY, JOHN | England, 1682-1744, | designed a telescope, 1719-20; best known for his invention of the relecting quadrant (octant) in 1731, for which he received a patent in 1734 which ran until 1745; a similar instrument was independently invented, about the same time, by Thomas Godrey 1 in Philadelphia, Pa.; Hadley licensed Joseph Jackson 1 to be the sole maker; designed a bubble level in 1734. | Enfield Chase near East Barnet. | Taylor 1(538); Taylor 2(56); DNB; DSB; USNM; Bedini 8; G.L'E. Turner 24; A.J. Turner 10; Millburn 8. | suggest correction | |
HADNOT, JOHN | England, c.1808, MIM | apprenticed to John Symons of the Grocers' Company 1801-08. | London. | J. Brown 2. | suggest correction | |
HAECKE, H. | Germany, 1816?, NIM | Octant, 1816 = Christie 6/7/72; Sextants = X, Kelton Coll. (1990). | Kelton sextant has micrometer and is W.W. 1 era, marked "No. 9693"; may be two makers or a misreading of the Christie date. | Neukölln; Berlin. | USNM; RSW. | suggest correction |
HAEFELZ, JOHANNES FRIDERICUS | Germany, 1784, MIM | Horizontal Table Sundial, 1784 = THO. | Braunschweig. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HAERING | France, MIM OIM PHIM | T.C.; optician; made physical instruments. | à l'Aigle d'Or, No.63 Palais du Tribunat, près le Café de Foi, Paris. | Calvert 2. | suggest correction | |
HAFENRETTER, SAMUEL H. | Germany, 1587-1660, | author; designed an astrological instrument with a sundial. | Tübingen. | Zeitlin Cat. 1974. | suggest correction | |
HAGER | Germany, 1696, MIM | Perpetual Calendar, 1696 = Soth.-SB pre-1980. | probably Johann Melchior Hager or Michael Tobias Hager. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HAGER, DIEDERICH PETER | Germany, 1674-1745, MIM | Calendar, large, 1710 = Anton-Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig. | Wolfenbüttel. | Buchler. | suggest correction | |
HAGER, JOHANN MELCHIOR | Germany, 1642-1713, MIM | Ring Sundials = MERC, Koller 11/17/75; Equatorial Sundials, silver = ADL-M296, BS-WB; Table Sundial = Düsseldorf (1976). | Engelmann read the ADL sundial as Johann Melchior Sager. | Frankfort. | Zinner 1; Buchler; Engelmann 1; Hamilton 1; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction |
HAGER, JOHANN MICHAEL | Germany, 1684-1765, MIM | Horizontal Sundial with cam, 1705 = BM; Horizontal Sundials = OXF; Nocturnal = Drouot 2/18/60. | the dial at the BM is signed "I.M. Hager"; the nocturnal is signed "J.M. Hager." | Frankfort and Braunschweig. | Zinner 1; Buchler; Price 3; Ward 4; RSW. | suggest correction |
HAGER, M. | Germany, MIM | Augsburg-type Sundials = KEN, D.(1976); Nocturnal = BM (lost). | surely Michael Tobias Hager; Chaldecott lists an "M. Aager." | Arnstadt. | Chaldecott 1; Price 2 & 3; Ward 4; RSW. | suggest correction |
HAGER, M.I. | see M.T. Hager. | Gunther 2; Evans 1; Price 3. | suggest correction | |||
HAGER, MICHAEL TOBIAS | Germany, 1639-1694, MIM | Astronomical Compendia = LIE, MUN, LOU, NUR; Pedometer, 1690 = BM; Table Sundials = Koller 11/17/75, OXF, BS-WB; Sundial, 1681 = Arnstadt Rathaus. | "Mechanikus." | Arnstadt; Wolfenbüttel. | Zinner 1; Gunther 2; Evans 1; Price 3; Ward 4; Michel 3; Hamilton 1; Belgian Inventory; Wynter and Turner; Buchler; RSW. | suggest correction |
HAGER, N. | Germany, 17th Century, MIM | Compass with Perpetual Almanac = Bernal Sale No.3955; Universal Equatorial Sundial, with latitude cam = D.(1974). | probably a misreading for M.T. Hager. | Arnstadt. | Zinner 1; Evans 1; Price 2; Wynter 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
HAGER, WOLFGANG | Germany, 1643-1705, MIM | Sundials = Cologne Museum (1687), NMM, TIM, BS-WB; Nocturnals = Cologne Museum (1681),KES (1692); Pedometers = SPI-2829 (1695), BS-WB (1696); Sundial in silver box, 1693 = OXF. | "Hofmechanikus." | Wolfenbüttel. | Buchler; Zinner 1; NMM 2; RSW. | suggest correction |
HAGGER AND BRO. | USA, 1842-59, MIM OIM PHIM SIM | Surveyor's Compass with vernier = School of Civil Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca N.Y.; Stick Barometer = D.(1980). | John W. Hagger and William G. Hagger; barometer signed "Hagger and Brother." | corner of Pratt Street and Spear's Wharf, Baltimore, Md. | Smart 1; Coffeen 27; RSW. | suggest correction |
HAGGER AND SON 1 | USA, 1795, MIM NIM | William Guyse Hagger and Benjamin King Hagger; advertised nautical compasses, 1795. | 2 doors south of the Draw-Bridge, Boston, Mass. | Brewington 1; Warner 12. | suggest correction | |
HAGGER AND SON 2 | USA, 1830, MIM OIM PHIM | Benjamin King Hagger and his son, John W. Hagger; ad in Baltimore paper in 1830. | at the Sign of Dr. Franklin, Baltimore, Md. | D.J. Warner 11. | suggest correction | |
HAGGER BROTHERS | USA, c.1850, MIM | Magnetic Compass = Maine Historical Society. | Baltimore, Md. | USNM. | suggest correction | |
HAGGER, BENJ. K., AND SON | USA, fl.1827-38, MIM OIM PHIM SIM | Surveying Compass = USNM. | made and imported instruments; Benjamin King Hagger and John W. Hagger. | 72 Baltimore Street (up to 1830); at the Sign of Dr. Franklin, 57 South Street (1830- 38); both in Baltimore, Maryland. | Smart 1; USNM; D.J. Warner 11 | suggest correction |
HAGGER, BENJAMIN KING | USA, 1769-1834, MIM NIM OIM SIM | Graphometer, wood = P.C.; Surveyor's Compasses = U. of Maryland, P.C., Rio Grande County Museum, Del Norte, Cal.; Sextant, 1825 = P.C. | son of William Guyse Hagger. | Newport, R.I.; Ann Street (1789); Prince Street near Snow Hill Street (1793); North Street (1795); Ann Street (1798); all in Boston, Mass.; at the sign of Dr. Franklin; 57 South Street (1816); at the Sign of Hadley's Quadrant, 72 Baltimore Street (1824); all in Baltimore, Maryland. | Brewington 1; Bedini 1 & 8; Smart 1; USNM; Price 2; D.J. Warner 10 and 11; RSW. | suggest correction |
HAGGER, C.E.E. | USA?, | instrument maker; possibly the grandson of B.K. Hagger. | Brewington 1. | suggest correction | ||
HAGGER, JOHN W. | USA, 1805-58, MIM | the son of Benjamin King Hagger; see Benj. K. Hagger and Son; his brother was William G. Hagger; see Hagger and Bro.; he apparently continued his father's firm at least until 1842. | 57 South Street, Baltimore, Md. (1833-38). | Smart 1; Brewington 1; USNM. | suggest correction | |
HAGGER, WILLIAM | USA, 1760, NIM | Backstaffs = MYS, USNM. | he was the father of William Guyse Hagger; partner of Benjamin King 1. | Newport, Rhode Island. | Smart 1; Bedini 1; USNM. | suggest correction |
HAGGER, WILLIAM GUYSE | USA, 1748-1832, NIM | Backstaffs = Rhode Island Historical Soc., Providence, R.I. (1768), PEA (1775), MAR (1775), VNN (1775), R.I. Historical Society = USNM (1776), D.(1777); Surveyor's Compass = Hist. Soc. of St. Marys and Benzinger Township, Pa. | the father of Benjamin King Hagger; there is a listing of an address at Cranston, R.I. in 1774; Joseph Callender made the compass cards. | Newport, R.I. (1766-88); near the Draw-Bridge, Ann Street, Boston, Mass. (1789). | Bedini 1 & 8; Smart 1; Brewington 1; USNM; Price 2; D.J. Warner 8 and 12; RSW. | suggest correction |
HAHN, A.H. | Germany, PHIM | Thermometer = DRE. | Dresden. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HAHN, GOTTFRIED | Germany, MIM | Heliochronometer = STU. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
HAHN, P.M., UND J.C. SCHUSTER | Germany, c.1780, MIM | Astronomical Clock = DRE; Quadrant Scale = DRE. | Phillip Mattäus Hann and Joh. Christ. Schuster. | Kornwesteim. | Grötzsch 2. | suggest correction |
HAHN, P.M., UND P.G. SCHAUDT | Germany, c.1775, MIM | Clock with Globe on top = DAR. | Philipp Mattaüs Hahn and Philipp Gottfried Schaüdt. | Kornwestheim and Onsmettingen. | Uhren Feb., 1990. | suggest correction |
HAHN, PHILIPP MATTAUS | Germany, 1739-90, MIM | Astronomical Clocks = STU, DRE, GOT, FUR, NUR; Heliochronometers = BASH,(1782), HEI, DEU, KRA, KRM; Wall Sundial = Balinger Kirchturm; Planetariums = NUR, FUR. | Philipp Mattäus Hahn; astronomer; author; the instrument in the Basle Historical Museum is signed simply "Hahn"; devised a multiplying machine, 1774; worked with Schuster and Schaudt. | Kornwestheim; Erfurt; Württemberg. | Zinner 1; Taylor 2(601); Grötzsch 2; Baillie 1; Engelmann 1; USNM; Deutche Uhrmacher-Zeitschrift, Aug. 1965; Neue Uhrmacher-Zeitung Ulm, Nov.30, 1964; A.J. Turner 10; RSW. | suggest correction |
HAIDEN AND CO. | England, late 19th Century, MIM SIM | Theodolite = Soth.-PB pre-1980. | this may be a misreading for Halden. | Manchester and London. | RSW. | suggest correction |
HAIJE, WM. DE LA | Holland, fl.1764-65, OIM | made lenses and mirrors. | The Hague. | Rooseboom 1. | suggest correction | |
HAIJES, WALTER | Holland, c.1750, MIM PHIM | Ring Sundial = STT. | Amsterdam. | Pipping 1; Mörzer Bruyns 2. | suggest correction | |
HAILES, THOMAS | England, fl.1687-95, OIM | apprenticed in the Spectaclemakers' Company in 1680; free of the Company on March 31, 1687. | Sign of the Spectacles and Perspective Glass (later the Telescope and Spectacles), corner of Cannon Alley, over against the great North Door of St. Paul's Church, London. | Taylor 1(454); Daumas 1; Clay and Court; Evans 1; Court and von Rohr 3(55). | suggest correction | |
HAINTZ, MATTHAEUS | see Mattheus Heintz | Zinner 1; Horsky and Skopova. | suggest correction | |||
HAIR, JOHN | England, 1782, PHIM | Stick Barometer, 1782 = D.(1989). | extra dial is semi-circle at top of instrument. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HAIR, WILLIAM EVITT | England, fl.1842-50, PHIM | made barometers, clocks and watches. | High Street, Boston. | Bell 2. | suggest correction | |
HAKES, W. | England, c.1850, NIM | Sextant with tangent screw = Seamans Institute of New York. | Hull. | USNM. | suggest correction | |
HALAICHER, MATTHAUS | Germany, 1671, MIM | Astrolabe Clock, 1671 = Hessischen Landesmuseum, Darmstadt. | Augsburg. | Engroff. | suggest correction | |
HALBAUR | Germany?, MIM | Compass Sundial in gimbals = MUN. | Zorge. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HALDEN, I. | see J. Halden. | RSW. | suggest correction | |||
HALDEN, J. | England, fl.1845-53, MIM | Rule, ivory = D.(1969); Protractor, full = Christie-SK 7/10/80. | became J. Halden and Co. after 1850; J. Halden and Co. Ltd. as late as 1930. | Albert Square, Manchester; London. | Moskowitz 109; RSW. | suggest correction |
HALDEN, J. AND CO. | England, c.1850, MIM SIM | Dumpy Level = Phillips 7/28/82; Eidograph = D(1974). | Manchester and London. | Moskowitz 109; RSW. | suggest correction | |
HALER, MUMENT | Switzerland, 1773, OIM | Solar Microscope, 1773 = X. | successor to Passemant. | Nachet. | suggest correction | |
HALES | variant spelling for Hailes, Hale. | Court and von Rohr 3(55). | suggest correction | |||
HALES, STEPHEN | England, 1677-1761, MIM | designed and built an orrery, 1705; F.R.S. | London. | North 2; Millburn 5; Gunther; DSB. | suggest correction | |
HALEWYCK, F.M. VAN | Holland, 1653, MIM | Sundial and Nocturnal, 1653 = LIE. | Michel 1, 3 and 9; Rooseboom 1. | suggest correction | ||
HALFPENNY, WILLIAM | England, fl.1722-48, MIM | devised a tangent rule. | Bristol? | Taylor 2(182). | suggest correction | |
HALL | England, c.1820, OIM | optician. | Nachet. | suggest correction | ||
HALL AND HAWKS | England, 1840, MIM | 10 Duke Street, Borough; also Topping's Wharf, London Bridge; both in London. | O'Mara. | suggest correction | ||
HALL BROS. | England, MIM | Theodolite = Soth. 1/27/75. | Croyden. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HALL, A.J. | England, MIM | Machine for describing ellipses and curves = X. | 2 William Street, Clerkenwell, London. | USNM. | suggest correction | |
HALL, ASA | USA, c.1790, | clockmaker; worked on an orrery built by Caleb Leach. | Boston, Mass. | Bedini 8. | suggest correction | |
HALL, B.J. | England, MIM | Reduction Compass = Chevau-Légers 2/28/82. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
HALL, BRADFORD | England, OIM | Binocular Microscope = D.(1970). | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
HALL, CHESTER MOOR | England, 1703-71, | invented the achromatic lens, 1733; lawyer. | More Hall, Sutton, Essex. | Wynter and Turner; Taylor 2(183); DNB; Dewhirst. | suggest correction | |
HALL, EDWARD | England, c.1850, PHIM | partner with Edward Jenkin in Dring and Fage and Co.; made hydrometers and saccharimeters. | 19 and 20 Tooley Street, London Bridge, London. | McConnell 4. | suggest correction | |
HALL, FRANCIS | Belgium; England, 1595-1675, MIM | Polyhedral Sundial, 1669 = Whitehall Garden, London. | also known as Francis Line; Jesuit; author; experimented with the motion of mercury in the barometer c.1660. | Liège, (1630-58); London (1658-70); Liège (1670-75). | Gatty; Reilly; Taylor 1(133); Baillie 1; Middleton 1. | suggest correction |
HALL, J. | England, OIM | Telescope with stand = D.(1976). | Bradford. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HALL, JOHN 1 | England, 1698, MIM | Universal Ring Sundial, 1698 = VEN. | Price 2; RSW. | suggest correction | ||
HALL, JOHN 2 | England, 1840-50, PHIM | barometer maker. | Northgate, Sleaford. | Bell 2. | suggest correction | |
HALL, MARTIN VON | Austria, fl.1438-d.1466, | designed wall sundials. | Tirol. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction | |
HALL, S.W. | USA, 1848, PHIM | philosophical and chemical instrument maker. | Philadelphia, Pa. | USNM. | suggest correction | |
HALL, THOMAS | USA, fl.1849-78, PHIM | Palmer and Hall (1849-57) succeeded Daniel Davis, Jr.; Hall on his own after 1857; made electrical apparatus. | Boston, Mass. | USNM; Romaine. | suggest correction | |
HALLAM AND SON | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Christie-SK 6/30/89. | Nottingham. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HALLAYCHER, MATTHEUS | Germany, 18th Century, MIM | Watch in a Globe = Spitzer-186. | Augsburg. | Michel 3; RSW. | suggest correction | |
HALLEN | England, c.1820, MIM | see Cottam and Hallen | Winsley Street, London. | Wynter and Turner; Kenney Cat. | suggest correction | |
HALLENSEN, J.A. | Germany, 1748, MIM | Rule and Plotting Scale, 1748 = OXF. | Wolfenbüttel. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HALLEY, DR., AND CO. | a frequent misreading for 'Dr. Halley, etc.' found on pocket globes. | RSW. | suggest correction | |||
HALLEY, EDMOND | England, 1656-1742, | Dr. Edmond Halley, second Astronomer Royal, 1720; worked out the eliptical orbits of comets including the one of 1758, named for him; author; designed a large astronomical sextant; F.R.S., 1678; charted magnetic deviation isogomes in the Atlantic; etc. | London. | Taylor 1(401), 2(57); DNB; DSB; USNM; Hoskins. | suggest correction | |
HALLIFAX, GEORGE | England, 1725-1811, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = P.C. | fourth son of John Hallifax; clockmaker. | Doncaster (1750-1811). | Goodison 1. | suggest correction |
HALLIFAX, JOHN | England, 1694-1750, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = P.C. (4), VAA (2), D.(1966), D.(1973), Soth. 7/16/76, etc; Stick Barometer = D.(1989). | the wheel barometers are signed "J. (or John or Johannes) Hallifax Inv & Fect."; stick barometer has two silver dials, one of which has an interesting degree scale; clockmaker; succeeded by his fifth son, Joseph. | Barnsley. | Goodison 1; Symonds; Tyler; Banfield 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
HALLIFAX, JOSEPH | England, c.1750, PHIM | barometer maker; fifth son of John Hallifax; succeeded him. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | ||
HALLIFAX, THOMAS | England, c.1750, PHIM | barometer maker; third son of John Hallifax; Bell thinks he succeeded his father rather than Joseph. | Barnsley. | Bell 2. | suggest correction | |
HALSAY, DANIEL | see Daniel Halsy | Moskowitz 2. | suggest correction | |||
HALSE | also see Jacob and Halse. | suggest correction | ||||
HALSE, E., AND SON | England, 18th Century, MIM | Sector, wood = WRAY; Sector, ivory = ADL-W116; Drawing Instrument Sets in etuis = Soth. 7/20/70, Newcastle Science and Engineering Museum. | Newcastle sector and rectangular protractor signed and in green shagreen etui; may be only one set. | London. | ADL; RSW. | suggest correction |
HALSE, W.H. | England, PHIM | T.C.; made galvanic apparatus; called himself "Professor of Medical Galvanism." | 22 Brunswick Square, London. | Calvert 2. | suggest correction | |
HALSEY | also see Halsy. | suggest correction | ||||
HALSEY, I. | USA, 1702, NIM | probably John or Joseph (1) Halsey; sometimes spelt "Halsy." | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
HALSEY, JAMES 1 | USA, fl.1669-96, NIM | Backstaff, 1676 = PEA. | "Mathematician"; this is one of the earliest instruments made in the Colonies. | Fish Street, Boston, New England. | Brewington 1; Bedini 1 & 8; American Neptune Jan.,1975; D.J. Warner 8 and 12. | suggest correction |
HALSEY, JAMES 2 | USA, 1695-1767, MIM NIM SIM | Surveyor's Compasses, wood = PEA, X, P.C.; Backstaves, 1739 = Maine Historical Society, Portland, Me., P.C. | nephew of Joseph Halsey 1; sometimes spelt Halsy. | near ye drawbridge, Boston, Mass. | Bedini 1 & 8; Smart 1; USNM; Brewington 1; Bryden 12; D.J.Warner 8; RSW. | suggest correction |
HALSEY, JOHN | USA, fl.1700-50, MIM | brother of Joseph Halsey?; sometimes spelt "Halsy." | Green Street, Boston, Mass.; Madagascar. | Bedini 1 & 8; Smart 1. | suggest correction | |
HALSEY, JOSEPH 1 | USA, 1675-1745, MIM NIM | Backstaff, 1702 = P.C. (1971); Surveyor's Compass, wood = New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord; Compass Card = Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston. | nephew of James Halsey 1; sometimes spelt "Halsy"; sometimes signed "Joseph Halsey, Jun."; may have been first American to make octants; backstaff also marked "Made for Andrew Gray." | Boston, New England. | Bedini 1 & 8; Smart 1; Brewington 1; D.J. Warner 8, 10 and 12; Brophy; RSW. | suggest correction |
HALSEY, JOSEPH 2 | USA, b.1699, fl.1731-62, NIM | Surveying Compass, 1747 = P.C. (1974). | son of Joseph Halsey 1; advertised as making Hadley's quadrants in 1738; grand-nephew of James Halsey 1. | Fish Street, Boston, Mass. | Bedini 1 & 8; Brewington 1; Guthman 1; Warner 12; RSW. | suggest correction |
HALSKE | Germany, 1814-90, PHIM | Dynamometer = Barris-Holley Engineering Bldg., Brown University, Providence, R.I. | apprenticed to Karl Philipp Heinrich Pistor, c.1830; see Siemins and Halske. | Berlin. | G.L'E. Turner 24; Weil and Baden; RSW. | suggest correction |
HALSY | USA, | see Halsey. | Bedini 8; D.J. Warner 8 and 10. | suggest correction | ||
HALSY, DANIEL | USA, 1777, MIM | warrant issued for his arrest on Jan. 16, 1777; also listed as Daniel Halsay in the warrant. | Boston, Mass. | Moskowitz 2. | suggest correction | |
HALTON, IMMANUEL | England, 1628-99, MIM | Vertical Sundials on Wingfield Manor House, Derbyshire (2). | astronomer, mathematician and diallist; designed a large quadrant and a type of triquetum, c.1652. | Wingfield Manor House, Derbyshire; Gray's Inn, London. | Taylor 1(231); Evans 1; Gatty; A.J. Turner 10. | suggest correction |
HAM, ANTHONY | USA?, MIM SIM | Surveyor's Compass = P.C. (1976). | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
HAM, ERASMUS | England, c.1736, MIM | apprenticed to George Adams 1, of the Grocers' Company on April 21, 1736. | London. | J. Brown 1. | suggest correction | |
HAM, JAMES 1 | USA, fl.1754-64+, NIM | Backstaff, 1759 = TIM. | father of James Ham 2; the instrument at the Time Museum was stamped "I.H./No.151." (I.H.) 3; advertised nautical compasses for sale in New York, 1754 and in Philadelphia in 1761. | at the house wherein the Widow Ratsey lately lived, near the Old Dutch Church, Smith Street, New York (1754); at the sign of Hadley's Quadrant at Front and Water Streets, Phiadelphia, Pa. (1759). | Bedini 1; Gillingham 1; Moskowitz 114; USNM; D.J. Warner 8, 10 and 12; RSW. | suggest correction |
HAM, JAMES 2 | USA, fl.1780-81, NIM OIM | Backstaff, 1781 = Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, Pa. = X. | James Ham, jr.; son of James Ham 1; advertised nautical compasses, 1780. | Hadley's Quadrant at Front and Water Streets; below the Draw Bridge in Water Street; between Spruce and Pine Streets; all in Philadelphia, Pa. | Bedini 1; Gillingham 1; D.J. Warner 8, 10 and 12. | suggest correction |
HAMANN ET HEMPEL | France, pre-1842, MIM | Elliptical Compass = CNAM. | Cons. Nat'l 1; Destombes 4. | suggest correction | ||
HAMBERG, O.P. | Sweden, 1849, MIM OIM | Microscope, 1849 = X. | also made scales. | Pipping 1. | suggest correction | |
HAMBLER, W.H. | USA, c.1850?, MIM | Quadrilateral Rule, boxwood = D.(1984). | 51 Nassau Street, New York, N.Y. | Coffeen II. | suggest correction | |
HAMBLETON | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | ||
HAMELIN | France, 183?, PHIM | Balance Set = D. | "Balancier-Méchanicien, Adjusteur, Verificateur." | à L'H Couronné, Rue Saint-Denis, No. 78, près celle des Lombards, Paris. | Coffeen 36. | suggest correction |
HAMER, JAMES | England, c.1823, MIM | apprenticed to Michael Dancer in the Joiners' Company on Jan. 8, 1800; listed in 1823; took an apprentice. | 12 Hosier Lane, West Smithfield, London. | Crawford 7. | suggest correction | |
HAMILTON, DR. HUGO | England, 1796, PHIM | Barometer, 1796 = X. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
HAMILTON, HENRY ROBERT | England, c.1838, OIM | 16 Queen Street, Goswell Street, London. | Taylor 2(2144). | suggest correction | ||
HAMILTON, JAMES 1 | Scotland, 1686, MIM | Cube Sundials, 1686 = Kinross House, Kinrossshire (2). | mason; servitor to James Smith, overseer at Kinross House and son-in-law to Robert Mylne. | Somerville. | suggest correction | |
HAMILTON, JAMES 2 | England, c.1742, MIM | apprenticed to John Parminter 1, Grocers' Company, Aug.4, 1742. | London. | J. Brown 1. | suggest correction | |
HAMILTON, JOHN | Scotland, 1686, MIM | Vertical Stone Sundials, 1686 = Kinross House (2). | mason. | Kinross. | Gatty. | suggest correction |
HAMILTON, RICHARD | England, c.1705, MIM | apprenticed to John Warner 2 or 3 of the Clockmakers' Company in Sept., 1705; may have been free of the Company by 1712. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
HAMILTON, T. FENTON, AND CO. | USA, pre-1842, MIM OIM PHIM | mostly made meteorological instruments. | Baltimore, Md. | USNM. | suggest correction | |
HAMILTON, WILLIAM FRANCIS | England, c.1814, OIM | patented improvements for optical instruments. | Asylum Buildings, Westminster Road, Surrey. | Taylor 2(1348); Dewhirst. | suggest correction | |
HAMLIN | England, c.1800, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Mallams, Oxford 4/30/97. | too late for William Hamlin 2. | London. | ATG 4/26/97. | suggest correction |
HAMLIN, RICHARD ELY | USA, 1814-80, OIM | made reflecting telescopes; lottery ticket signed "R.E. Hamlin's Reflecting Telescope"; ticket also marked "W. Hamlin Scs."; see William Haklin 1. | Preuss 1; RSW. | suggest correction | ||
HAMLIN, WILLIAM 1 | USA, 1772-1869, MIM NIM OIM | Magnetic Compasses = MYS, P.C. | apprenticed to Samuel Canfield, Middleton, Conn.; came to Providence by 1795; listed as MIM and engineer by 1824; T.C.; see Richard Ely Hamlin who succeeded him. | North Main Street, next north of St. John's Church (pre-1806); 11 Cheapside, next door north of Messrs. Blodget and Powers (1806); opposite the Baptist Meeting House (1809); Sign of the Quadrant, 131 South Water Street, in the store of Benjamin Clifford (pre-1819); at the sign of the Quadrant, 135 South Main Street (1823); all in Providence, R.I. | Bedini 1 & 8; Price 2; USNM; Lane; Evans 1; Smart 1; Coffeen C; Eldred 10/11/75; Preuss 1; D.J. Warner 10; RSW. | suggest correction |
HAMLIN, WILLIAM 2 | England, fl.1792-1814, MIM SIM | Instrument = WHI; Surveyor's Compasses = NMM, DeLuca 8/1/87; Magnetic Compass = Soth. 2/7/72; Surveyor's Level = Weschler 5/22/76; Compass, pocket = D.(1997). | there is some thought that William Hamlin 1 and 2 were the same man, but the American apprenticeship and addresses of Hamlin 1 would appear to preclude this idea; the last two instruments are signed "Hamlin, London", which see. | 111 Leadenhall Street, London. | Taylor 2(983); NMM 2; Preuss 1; D.J. Warner 10; MAD June, 1997; RSW. | suggest correction |
HAMMERR | see Starke and Hammerr. | suggest correction | ||||
HAMMERSLEY | England, MIM OIM | Surveyor's Level and a Telescope = Christie 2/4/69; | Islington, London. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HAMMOND, J. | England, MIM | Garden Sundial = LIE. | Ken(sington), London. | Michel 9. | suggest correction | |
HAMMOND, WILLIAM 1 | England, c.1620, | free of the Joiners' Company; took apprentices. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | ||
HAMMOND, WILLIAM 2 | England, pre-1782, MIM | apprenticed to Benjamin Cole 2 in the Merchant Taylors' Company; made free in the Company. | Crawforth 8. | suggest correction | ||
HAMON | France, 1637, NIM | Cross-staff, 1637 = KEN. | St. Malo. | Daumas 1; Dewhirst; Clay and Court. | suggest correction | |
HAMPSON, THOMAS | England, fl.1728-55, MIM | Sundial = Llandderfel Churchyard, Merioneth. | clockmaker. | High Street, Wrexham (1728-48). | Peate. | suggest correction |
HAMPTON, JOHN | England, NIM | Hadley's Quadrant = TRE. | this might be the name of the owner. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HAMSTRA PZ, P. | Holland, c.1850, NIM | Crown Compass = P.C. | Harlingen. | Mörzer Bruyns 2. | suggest correction | |
HAN | Holland, c.1650, MIM | Astronomical Quadrants, wood and paper = UTR-A9, UTR-OBS-192. | designed by Vooghdio. | Loon. | Zinner 1; Michel 3; Van Cittert 1. | suggest correction |
HANACZIK | Austria, PHIM | Hydrometer = KRA. | Vienna. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HANBURYS | England, | see Alan and Hanburys. | London. | suggest correction | ||
HANBY | England, c.1768, | see Tappenden and Hanby. | Crawforth 1. | suggest correction | ||
HANCOCK, HANNAH | England, c.1830, OIM | widow of William Hancock? | 7 Waingate, Sheffield. | Taylor 2(1877). | suggest correction | |
HANCOCK, JOHN 1 | England, c.1740, MIM | Ring Sundials = OXF, FIN, EMA, Dundee City Museum and Art Gallery. | some are signed "Hancock", some "J. Hancock." | Stevens and Aked; Michel 3; Taylor 2(359); RSW. | suggest correction | |
HANCOCK, JOHN 2 | England, c.1840, MIM OIM | Instrument = OXF. | 30 City Road, Finsbury, London. | Taylor 2(2145). | suggest correction | |
HANCOCK, MALAHOL | England, c.1668, | apprenticed to Benjamin Emott in the Joiners' Company on Dec. 7, 1668. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | ||
HANCOCK, WILLIAM | England, c.1822, OIM | 24 Waingate, Sheffield. | Taylor 2(1575). | suggest correction | ||
HANDASYDE | Scotland1698, MIM | Cube Sundial, 1698 = Keir House, Dunblane. | Somerville. | suggest correction | ||
HANDASYNE, ARCH. | Scotland, 1732, MIM | Polyhedral Sundial, stone, 1732 = Cramond near Edinburgh. | Gatty. | suggest correction | ||
HANDEL, JOHANN GEORG | Germany, MIM | Mechanical Equatorial Sundial = OXF. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction | ||
HANDLEY, JAMES | USA, fl.1865-73, NIM | partner of Charles R. Sherman in C.R. Sherman and Co. | 49 North Water Street, New Bedford, Mass. | Moskowitz; RSW. | suggest correction | |
HANDMAN, I. | MIM | Terrestrial Globe, gilt-brass = BASH. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
HANDSCOMB, EBENEZER | England, fl.1764-91, PHIM | Barometer = Luton Art Gallery. | Woburn. | Bell 2. | suggest correction | |
HANDSFORD, JOHN | England, c.1780, MIM | Orrery = Soth. 11/23/59 = Iparmüvészeti Museum, Budapest. | may be two instruments. | Bristol. | Globe Exhibition, Budapest, 1990; RSW. | suggest correction |
HANIN | France, fl.1785-88, MIM PHIM | Balance = CNAM; Manometer = D.(1990). | manometer is steel dividers with brass scale (in shape of quadrant), to compare measurements in meters with old foot, English, Castille, Vienna, Brussels, and St. Petersburg style. | Cons. Nat'l 1; Destombes 4; RSW. | suggest correction | |
HANIN FILS | France, c.1750, MIM | Proportional Compass, iron = PRIN = NMM-DI/DP.2. | St. Romain. | NMM 2; MADEX. | suggest correction | |
HANKS | USA, c.1790, MIM SIM | Surveyor's Compasses, wood = Deerfield Museum, Mass. and the Suffield Historical Society, Conn. | either Col. Benjamin Hanks or Horatio Hanks, both lived in Mansfield at that time. | Mansfield, Conn. | Smart 1. | suggest correction |
HANKS AND GURLEY | USA, fl.1818-21, MIM SIM | Alpheus and Truman Hanks and Ephraim Gurley; they also ran an iron foundry. | Troy N.Y. | Smart 1. | suggest correction | |
HANKS AND SON | USA, c.1808, MIM | Benjamin Hanks and Truman Hanks; also clockmakers. | Mansfield and Litchfield, Conn. | Bedini 1; USNM. | suggest correction | |
HANKS, A. AND T. | USA, fl.1830-34, MIM SIM | Alpheus Hanks was a brother, and Truman Hanks was a son of Benjamin Hanks; they succeeded Julius Hanks. | Elbow and Fifth Streets, Troy, N.Y. | Smart 1. | suggest correction | |
HANKS, BENJAMIN | USA, 1755-1824, MIM SIM | apprenticed to Thomas Harland; made surveying instruments, clocks, bells, etc.; called himself Col. | Windham, Conn.(1777-80); Litchfield, Conn.(1780-90); Mansfield, Conn.(1790); Gibbonsville, N.Y.(1808); Gibbonsville is now Watervliet and may have been West Troy. | Bedini 1, 8 and 17; Smart 1; O.B. Frye. | suggest correction | |
HANKS, BENJAMIN AND JULIUS | USA, fl.1808-10, MIM SIM | made vernier surveying compasses; perhaps succeeded Adams and Whipple. | West Troy, N.Y. | Smart 1. | suggest correction | |
HANKS, HORATIO | USA, 1790-1838, MIM PHIM SIM | Surveyor's Vernier Compass = P.C.; Surveyor's Cross = P.C. | fourth son of Benjamin Hanks; both instruments made in Auburn. | Mansfield, Conn. (1790-1816); Gibbonsville, N.Y. (1816-20); Auburn, N.Y. (1820-26); Troy, N.Y. (1826-28); New York, N.Y. (1828-33); New Bern, N. Carolina (1833-36); Cincinnati, Ohio (1836-38); Vicksburg, Miss. (1838). | Smart 1; USNM. | suggest correction |
HANKS, JULIUS | USA, 1784-1857?, MIM SIM | Surveyor's Vernier Compasses = State Education Bldg.,Albany, N.Y., Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, Mich., Summit County Historical Society, Akron, Ohio, P.C. | third son of Benjamin Hanks; worked with his father 1808-10. | Gibbonsville, N.Y. (1808-24); Fifth Street, Troy, N.Y. (1825); Fifth and Elbow Streets, Troy, N.Y. (1829-38); Troy, N.Y. (1841-47); Chicago, Ill. (1852-57). | Smart 1; USNM; RSW. | suggest correction |
HANKS, OSCAR | USA, 1810-83, MIM SIM | Hoop Compass = GUR; Transit = GUR; Surveyor's Compasses = P.C., State Historical Society, Madison, Wis. | son of Julius Hanks; succeeded A. and T. Hanks in 1834. William Gurley worked for him between 1839-45. | Troy, N.Y. (1831-46); Chicago Ill. (1856-60); Cincinnatti, Ohio (1876-83). | Smart 1; USNM; Coffeen I. | suggest correction |
HANKS, TRUMAN | USA, fl.1808-34, MIM SIM | son of Benjamin Hanks; see Hanks and Son; see A. and T. Hanks; see Hanks and Gurley. | Mansfield and Litchfield, Conn.(1808-); Troy, N.Y.(1818-34). | Bedini 1; Smart 1. | suggest correction | |
HANNAEUS, I.D. | Germany, 18th Century, MIM | Mechanical Equatorial Sundial = KRO. | Meldorf. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction | |
Hannay, Heinrich | fl. 1866-1872 | See Dolberg, Adolf | suggest correction | |||
HANNAY, JOHN | Scotland, 1815, MIM | Stone Sundial, 1815 = Wigtown County Museum, Stranraer. | for latitude 54° 41'. | Stevens and Aked. | suggest correction | |
HANNES, J.O. | England, MIM | Perpetual Calendar = OXF. | London. | Evans 1; Gunther 2. | suggest correction | |
HANNIN, SIEUR | France, pre-1782, PHIM | Dynamometer = COR. | Courtanvaux. | suggest correction | ||
HANSEN, ANDRES | Germany, 1709, MIM | Vertical Sundial, copper, 1709 = FLE. | Flensburg. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction | |
HANSFORD, JOHN | England, c.1850, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Christie-SK 6/24/88. | Ilminster. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HANSON | England, c.1820, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = X, Soth. 12/13/88. | probably William Hanson, clockmaker. | Windsor. | Goodison 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
HANSON, JOHN | England, fl.1850 - 56, MIM PHIM | instrument and barometer maker | 29 Hope Street; Hackney Road N.; both in London. | Bell 2; O'Mara. | suggest correction | |
HANZELET, JEAN APPIER | France, c.1630, MIM | engraved plates for printed dials; "math. et graveur"; Hanzelet might be the name of a town. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
HAPPACHER, A. | Austria, MIM | Sundial on plinth = P. & S. 5/20/1895. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
HAPPACHER, PHILIP | Germany, MIM | Universal Equatorial Sundial, gold case = ADL-A104. | gold case has perpetual calendar on cover. | Fridborg. | ADL; RSW. | suggest correction |
HAR | see Han. | Michel 3. | suggest correction | |||
HARBERT, CORNELIUS | England, c.1686, MIM | took Thomas Freeman as an apprentice on Sept. 6, 1686; may have been member of the Clockmakers' Company. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
HARDENBERG | Holland, fl.1816-32, MIM | compass maker; the full name is listed as Hardenberg (d'Erve). | Op de Binnenkant voor Kraansluis (1816); Texelse Kaai bij de Raamskooi 16 (1826-32); both in Amsterdam. | Mörzer Bruyns 2. | suggest correction | |
HARDER, JOHANN | Germany, c.1657, MIM | compass maker; is he the same as Johannes Harder of St. Gallen? | Nürnberg. | Gouk 1. | suggest correction | |
HARDER, JOHANNES | Switzerland, 1657, MIM | Diptych Sundial, wood, 1657 = Palais Rumine, Lausanne. | is he the same as Johann Harder of Germany? | St. Gallen. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction |
HARDING, JOHN | England, c.1809, MIM | apprenticed to Charles Fairbone 1, of the Grocers' Company, on June 4, 1801; turned over to Charles Fairbone 2, of the Grocers' Company, on February 8, 1802; free of the Company, Dec. 7 1809. | London. | J. Brown 1. | suggest correction | |
HARDOUIN | France, 18th Century, MIM | Planetarium = CNAM. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
HARDY 1 | France, 1693, | made the frame for a Coronelli celestial globe, 1693. | rue St. Julien le pauvre, Paris.. | Destombes 5. | suggest correction | |
HARDY 2 | France, fl.1738-79, MIM | Globe for Armillary Sphere, 1779 = NMM-Sp.13; Globe, Celestial, 1738 = NMM-G.147. | probably Jacques Hardy. | NMM 2. | suggest correction | |
HARDY 3 | Germany, 1795, OIM | microscope maker | Cologne. | Daumas 1. | suggest correction | |
HARDY 4 | England, PHIM | Farenheit Thermometer = Kirk Coll.,Castle Museum, York. | York. | Bryden 9. | suggest correction | |
HARDY, J. AND I. | England, c.1795?, MIM NIM SIM | Octants = BAR, PEA, Cohasset Historical Society, Mass.; Soth. 10/21/74; Quadrant = P.C.; Borda Circle = P.C.; Sextant = PEA; Surveyor's Compasses = PEA, Soth. 6/14/82; Hadley's Quadrant = Fall River Marine Museum, Mass. | the Soth. items are misread as J. and J. Hardy and J. and T. Hardy in the order listed; the Fall River quadrant is misread as J. and F. Hardy. | London. | Brewington 1; USNM; RSW. | suggest correction |
HARDY, JACQUES | France, fl.1737-87, MIM | Armillary Spheres = Drouot 3/8/63 (1737), NMM (1779); Terrestrial Globes = CNAM (1742), Gotha, P.C.; Celestial Globes = X (3); Instrument = LIM. | St.-Jean-le-pauvre, en face de Nôtre Dame, Paris. | Cons. Nat'l 1; Destombes 4; Grimaldi (954); Pastoreau; RSW. | suggest correction | |
HARDY, JOHN | England, 1774, NIM | Hadley's Quadrants, 1774 = D.(1988), no date = D.(1996). | Ratcliff, London. | Coffeen 21 and 55. | suggest correction | |
HARDY, JOHN, AND SONS | England, c.1825, NIM OIM | Sextant and Telescope = Pacific House, Monterey, Cal.; Telescope = PEA. | London. | Brewington 1; RSW. | suggest correction | |
HARDY, L.G. | England, c.1790, NIM | Octant =D.(1973). | London. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HARDY, NICHOLAS | France, c.1770, MIM | son of Jacques Hardy; globemaker. | Paris. | Pasroreau; RSW. | suggest correction | |
HARE 1 | see Colomba and Hare. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |||
HARE 2 | England, c.1800, PHIM | Guinea Balance = BM. | London. | Price 3. | suggest correction | |
HARE, ROBERT | USA, 1781-1858, PHIM | Chemical Apparatus = USNM. | chemical apparatus inventor and maker. | Pennsylvania. | USNM. | suggest correction |
HARGRAVE, JOHN | England, 1638, MIM | Altitude Sundial, 1638 = Christie 2/17/69. | dubious. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HARGRAVES | England, c.1785, PHIM | Stick Barometer = X. | Skipton. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
HARGRAVES, THOMAS | England, fl.1790-1834, PHIM | barometer maker; sometimes spelled Hargreaves. | Settle. | Baillie 1; Bell 2. | suggest correction | |
HARGROVE, RICHARD | England, c.1688, MIM | apprenticed to Isaac Carver of the Clockmakers' Company on Oct. 3, 1688. | J.Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
HARING | France, c.1800-25, MIM PHIM | Sector = X; Stick Barometer = D; Mathematical Instrument Set = D.(1985). | Häring; "Opticien de sa Majesté le Roi de Württemburg." | Palais Royal No. 63, Paris. | Michel 3; Brophy; Coffeen 10. | suggest correction |
HARKER | England, c.1780, PHIM | Stick Barometer = Christie 12/6/78. | London. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HARLAND, THOMAS | England; USA1735-1807, MIM SIM | made surveying instruments; clockmaker; took Benjamin Hanks as an apprentice. | Norwich, Conn. | Bedini 1; O.B. Frye. | suggest correction | |
HARLING, W.H. | England, late 19th Century, MIM | Protractor, Aidie-type = Soth. 2/25/86. | 47 Finsbury Pavement, London. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HARMAN, WILLIAM | England, fl.1832-34, MIM PHIM | 1 Halfman Crescent, White Conduit Fields, London (1832-34). | Taylor 2(1576); O'Mara. | suggest correction | ||
HARMATS, HARMAN | Holland, 1606, MIM | Astronomical Compendium, 1606 = BM. | in the form of a knife, the ivory handle contains a miniature universal equatorial sundial and various calendars; Evans read the first name as Herman. | Neukirck. | Evans 1; Price 3; Ward 4. | suggest correction |
HARPER | England, OIM | Telescope, three-draw = Christie 7/10/80. | Manchester. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HARPER, JOHN | England, c.1616, | associated with William Pratt and Jeremiah Drury in the patent for Pratt's Arithmeticall Jewell, in 1616. | A.J. Turner 10. | suggest correction | ||
HARRI, LEENDERT JOHANNES | Holland, 1801-75, NIM | Crown Compass = AMST; Octants = AMST (No. 436), Koller 11/17/75; Sextants = OMM, Amst; Mariner's Compasses = Auctions, 1906, 1910, 1913; etc. | some instruments signed "L.J. Harri." | Oude Teertuinen bij de Schreijerstoren 446 (1836-52); Oude Teertuinen M.133 (1853-69); Kamperhoofd M.131 (1870-75); all in Amsterdam. | Mörzer Bruyns 1 & 2; RSW. | suggest correction |
HARRIMAN, JOHN | England, fl.1839-60, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | 58 Church Street (1839-49); 60 Church Street (1854); 100 Pritchett Street (1858-60); all in Birmingham. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
HARRIMAN, THOMAS | England, c.1818, MIM | rule maker. | Loveday Street, Birmingham. | Bryden 9. | suggest correction | |
HARRIOT, THOMAS | England, 1560-1621, | designed telescopes and perspective glasses; author; sometimes spelled "Hariot". | London. | North 1; Taylor 1(55); DNB. | suggest correction | |
HARRIS 1 | England, c.1820, MIM NIM OIM | Brewster-type Micrometer on a Tulley Telescope = NMM. | probably William Harris and Co. | London. | NMM 2. | suggest correction |
HARRIS 2 | England, PHIM | Stick Barometer = Christie 5/26/76. | Southampton. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HARRIS 3 | England, c.1855, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Soth.-S 7/23/87. | Witney. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HARRIS 4 | England, c.1840, MIM | Sundial with compass = Soth.-PB pre-1980. | London. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HARRIS 5 | England, 1836, MIM | Celestial Globe, 1836 = Walton Auction 12/30/96. | probably William Harris 1. | ATG 2/1/97. | suggest correction | |
HARRIS AND CO. 1 | England, c.1848, MIM OIM | Compasses = HAY, NMM; Terrestrial Globes = SOTH. 7/10/67 and 6/19/72; Orrery = North Carolina U.; Pantograph = D.(1974); Telescopes = PEA, D.(1975); Universal Equatorial Sundial = Soth. 10/20 75; Surveying Cross = D.(1983); Theodolite = D. (1983). | probably William Harris 1. | 50 Holborn, London. | Price 2; Brewington 1; NMM 2; Moskowitz 109; RSW. | suggest correction |
HARRIS AND CO. 2 | England, c.1814-, MIM NIM OIM | Octants, ebony = Soth. 10/18/71 and 10/21/74. | Swansea. | Bryden 9; RSW. | suggest correction | |
HARRIS AND SON | England, c.1812-54, MIM NIM OIM | Telescopes = P.C. (1854), DRE, P.C.(1987), Soth.-S 5/19/88, Universita Osservatorio Astronomico,Bologna, D.(1973); Terrestrial Globe, 1812 = Soth. 10/17/60; Microscope = D.(1973); Miniature Sextant = X; Quadrant, ebony and ivory = SUN; Octant, ebony and brass = Christie-SK 7/10/80. | probably William Harris 1. | 50 Holborn, London. | Grötzsch 2; Bonelli 4; RSW. | suggest correction |
HARRIS, DANIEL | England, 1737-75, MIM | Gunter's Quadrant, wood = ADL-DPW41; Horizontal String Gnomon Sundial = OXF. | apprenticed to Edmund Blow in the Joiners' Company on June 25, 1723; turned over to Thomas Cooke of the same Company, Sept. 14, 1725; free of the Company, Nov. 4, 1735; the horizontal dial is marked "Londres." | Christ's Church, London. | Taylor 2(488); Evans 1; Crawforth 7; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction |
HARRIS, G. | England, c.1800, MIM | Copper Plates for printing paper scales for sliding Gunter rules = NMM-CI/SR.5. | No. 31 Shoe Lane, London. | NMM 2. | suggest correction | |
HARRIS, GEORGE 1 | England, 1733, MIM NIM OIM | Quadrant, 1733 = X.; Sextant, 1733 = X. | quadrant might be a Davis Quadrant. | Taylor 2(267); Clay and Court; Dewhirst. | suggest correction | |
HARRIS, GEORGE 2 | England, fl.1815-25, OIM | see George and Henry Harris. | 6 Curtain Road, London. | Taylor 2(1350). | suggest correction | |
HARRIS, GEORGE AND HENRY | England, fl.1815-25, OIM | 6 Curtain Road, London. | Taylor 2(1350 and 1351). | suggest correction | ||
HARRIS, H., AND SON | England, c.1811, MIM OIM | Patent Telescope = WHI. | 50 High Holborn, London. | Taylor 2(1352); Dewhirst. | suggest correction | |
HARRIS, HENRY | England, fl.1815-25, OIM | see George and Henry Harris; see H. Harris and Son. | 6 Curtain Road, London. | Taylor 2(1351). | suggest correction | |
HARRIS, J. | Microscope = Christie 12/18/74. | misreading for T. Harris. | suggest correction | |||
HARRIS, J.C. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Christie 12/6/78. | Spalding. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HARRIS, J.W. | USA, c.1838, MIM PHIM | succeeded by Nathaniel Cleaves. | Boston, Mass. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HARRIS, JOHN 1 | England, 1630, MIM | Table Sundial, 1630 = Soth. 1/22/73 = 7/23/73. | signed "John Harris in the Strand." | London. | RSW. | suggest correction |
HARRIS, JOHN 2 | England, fl.1719-22, MIM | Instrument = WHI. | son of John Harris 1; called himself the partner of John Senex. | Bullhead Court, Newgate Street, London. | Taylor 2(59). | suggest correction |
HARRIS, JOHN 3 | England, c.1746, MIM | apprenticed to John Farmer 2 in the Joiners' Company on Nov. 11, 1746, made free in the Company. | London. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | |
HARRIS, JOHN 4 | England, c.1822, OIM | 22 Hyde Street, Bloomsbury, London. | Taylor 2(1578); Dewhirst. | suggest correction | ||
HARRIS, JOHN 5 | England, c.1818, MIM | apprenticed to Joseph Fairey of the Grocers' Company on Sept. 3 1818; he may be the same as John Harris 4. | London. | J. Brown 2. | suggest correction | |
HARRIS, JOHN T. | England, c.1823, | apprenticed to William Elliott 1 in the Joiners' Company on Aug. 23, 1823. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | ||
HARRIS, JOSEPH 1 | England, 1702-64, MIM | designed a new cross-staff which was made by Thomas Heath 1 in 1730, and a new azimuth compass; author; Master of the Mint, 1748. | Talgarth,Wales; London. | Taylor 2(185); DNB; J. Brown 1; Moskowitz 109. | suggest correction | |
HARRIS, JOSEPH 2 | England, 1797, MIM | apprenticed to Charles Fairbone 1, of the Grocers' Company, on June 1, 1797. | London. | J. Brown 1. | suggest correction | |
HARRIS, MICHAEL | England, c.1800, MIM | mechanician to Edgerton Smith 1. | Liverpool. | Taylor 2(1148); Bryden 9; Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
HARRIS, R. | England, 1745, MIM | Universal Ring Dial, 1745 = Ecole Polytechnique, Paris. | Guernesey, Channel Islands. | Taylor 2(360); Daumas 1. | suggest correction | |
HARRIS, RICHARD | England, 1806-10, OIM | 404 Strand, London. | Taylor 2(1149). | suggest correction | ||
HARRIS, T., AND SON | England, 1806-46, MIM OIM PHIM | many examples of telescopes, microscopes, sundials, miniature globes and other mathematical instruments which may be found in most museums including NMM, DRE, KEN, PEA, USNM, ADL, etc. | T.C.; Thomas Harris 2 and son; they took over Thomas Blunt's shop in 1823; barometer makers; "Opticians and Globe Makers to the King"; "Opticians to the Royal Family"; "Opticians to H.R.H. the Duke of Kent." | 140 Fleet Street (1806); 20 Duke Street (1808); 30 Hyde Street, Bloomsbury (1810-17); 52 Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury (sometimes just "British Museum")(1817-46); 50 High Holborn; 144a Oxford Street; all in London; also a branch in Hamburg. | Taylor 2(1150); Brewington 1; Bell 2; Calvert 2; USNM; NMM 2; Moskowitz 107; Crawforth 1; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction |
HARRIS, THOMAS 1 | England, pre-1782, MIM | apprenticed to Benjamin Cole 2 in the Merchant Taylors' Company; made free of the Company. | Crawforth 8. | suggest correction | ||
HARRIS, THOMAS 2 | England, 1767-1827, MIM OIM PHIM | Telescopes = Victory Museum, Portsmouth, D.(1971), D.(1975); Microscope = D.(1976). | apprenticed to George Linnell of the Spectaclemakers' Company on Sept.4, 1767; free of the Company by service in 1804; patented an astronomical ring; optician and barometer maker; took his son as a partner in 1806. | 140 Fleet Street and 30 High Street, Bloomsbury; Great Russell Street (1817); 52 Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury (1822); 47 High Holborn; all in London. | Taylor 2(1150); Pipping 1; King 1; J. Brown 1; Bell 2; Michel 3; Court and von Rohr 3(194); RSW. | suggest correction |
HARRIS, W. | England, c.1850, MIM NIM OIM | Telescope = RSM; Microscope = P.C.; Theodolite = X. | London. | USNM; RSW. | suggest correction | |
HARRIS, W. AND H. | England, OIM | Solar Microscope = X. | Dewhirst; Clay and Court. | suggest correction | ||
HARRIS, WILLIAM (1), AND CO. | England, fl.1813-1839, MIM NIM OIM PHIM SIM | Parallel Rule = Whaling Museum, Nantucket, Mass.; Proportional Compasses = NMM-DI/DP.5, P.C.; Sextants = COO, PEA; Hodometers = KEN, D.(1969); Borda Circle = COO; Telescopes = KEN, NMM; Telescope with micrometer = D.(1973); Telescope, miniature, with case = ADL-N60; Theodolite = D.(1989); etc. | T.C.; barometer makers; globe makers; usually signed "W. Harris and Co."; "Manufacturers of Optical, Mathematical and Philosophical Instruments." | 47 High Holborn (1799-1812); 50 High Holborn, corner of Baywater Street (1813-48); corner of Brownlow Street (1836); all in London; and in Hamburg. | Taylor 2(1151); Goodison 1; NMM 2; Portuguese Inventory; Dewhirst; Calvert 2; G.L'E. Turner 24; Wynter 1; Crawforth 1; J. Collins 1; Moskowitz 132; Bryden 9; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction |
HARRIS, WILLIAM (1), AND SON | England, fl.1839-, PHIM | Sympiesometer = Christie 4/28/82; Barometer = Soth. 10/28/86. | T.C.; "Harris's Patent Compensating Portable Barometer." | 50 High Holborn, Corner of Brownlow Street, London. | RSW. | suggest correction |
HARRIS, WILLIAM 1 | England, fl.1799-1848, MIM NIM OIM PHIM | Octant = NMM-S.133; Sextant = Maine Historical Society, Portland, Me.; Goniometer made for David Brewster in 1809; Microscopes = Soth. 4/22/65 and 10/3/88, D.(1975); Beam Compass = D.(1975); Proportional Compass = Weil Cat.29; Floating Sundials = D.(1985), Soth. 5/11/23; Orrery = NMM. | T.C. | 47 High Holborn (1799-1812); 50 High Holborn (1812-48); both in London. | Taylor 2(1151); USNM; NMM 2; Coffeen 11; RSW. | suggest correction |
HARRIS, WILLIAM 2 | England, c.1820, MIM OIM PHIM | Telescope = NMM-O.213/65-12; Marine Barometers = Soth. 5/12/72 (2). | signed "Harris, Optician to the King, 22 Cornhill". | 20 and 22 Cornhill, London. | Taylor 2(1353); Goodison 1; NMM 2; RSW. | suggest correction |
HARRIS, WILLIAM 3 | England, 1797-1846, OIM | Instrument = WHI. | apprenticed in the Spectaclemakers' Company in 1811; free of the Company on Feb. 12, 1818. | Great Russell Street and 63 King William Street, both in London. | Taylor 2(1152); Clay and Court; Court and von Rohr 3(242). | suggest correction |
HARRIS, WILLIAM SNOW | England, 1791-1867, | Sir William Snow Harris; invented a variation of Lind's anemometer and a new steering compass; F.R.S. 1831. | G.L'E. Turner 24; Chaldecott 3; RGO. | suggest correction | ||
HARRISON 1 | England, PHIM | Balance = Royal Institution; Coin Balance = Soth. 10/17/60. | John or Thomas Harrison. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HARRISON 2 | England, fl.1838-c.1910, NIM | Sextant = ADL-A168. | No. 6 Dock Street, Hull. | Aymar; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction | |
HARRISON 3 | England, c.1780, OIM | worked for Jesse Ramsden. | London. | Clay and Court. | suggest correction | |
HARRISON AND CO. | Canada, PHIM | Aneroid Barometer = Christie-SK 11/27/86. | Montreal. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HARRISON, C. | England, 1725-1810, MIM | Compass Sundial, silver, 1810 = OXF; Instrument = WHI; Compass Sundial, latitude 52°16' = D.(1983). | Taylor 2(361); Dewhirst; Baillie 1; Michel 3; Gunther 2; Coffeen D; Evans 1; RSW. | suggest correction | ||
HARRISON, CHARLES | Ireland, 1766-1810, MIM | Horizontal Sundial = Christie 7/5/71; Sundial =X. | the dial at Christie is signed "Harrison." | Limerick. | Fennell; RSW. | suggest correction |
HARRISON, EDWARD | England, fl.1686-1700, | claimed to have designed an improved quadrant and to have invented a new instrument. | Taylor 1(442). | suggest correction | ||
HARRISON, JOHN | England, 1693-1776, MIM PHIM | Chronometer No.1 (1735), No.2, No.3 (1759) and No.4 = NMM. | invented and developed the chronometer, which proved to be the first practical way to measure longitude; made a precision balance and other instruments; clockmaker. | Barston-on-Humber; Orange Street, London; Red Lion Square, London. | Taylor 2(60); DNB; Evans 1; Andrewes; G.L'E. Turner 24; NMM 2; J.A. Bennett 2. | suggest correction |
HARRISON, JOHN AND WILLIAM | England, 1761, NIM | Octant, commemorative, 1761 = NMM. | "H.M.S. Deptford, Jhn. and Wm. Harrison... Nov. 15, 1761." | NMM 2. | suggest correction | |
HARRISON, JOSEPH 1 | England, fl.1711-1719, MIM | apprenticed to John Johnson 3 in the Grocers' Company, October 10, 1704; free of the Grocers' Company, November 10, 1711,(o.s.) | Bishopsgate Street (1711); Crooked Lane (1714); both in London. | J. Brown 1. | suggest correction | |
HARRISON, JOSEPH 2 | England, fl.1734 - 1776, | sea captain; may have devised an azimuth compass. | Taylor 2(268); Bedini 8. | suggest correction | ||
HARRISON, M. | invented the "New Era or Patent Coast Navigator." | Christie 10/31/67. | suggest correction | |||
HARRISON, MR. | England, fl.1838-1910?, NIM | trade sign; see Harrison 3. | Aymar. | suggest correction | ||
HARRISON, SAMUEL | England, c.1830, PHIM | Coin Balance = OXF. | Birmingham. | G.L'E. Turner 24. | suggest correction | |
HARRISON, THOMAS | England, c.1760, PHIM | Balance = THO. | Cannon Street, London. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HARRISON, WILLIAM | England, c.1676, OIM | member of the Spectaclemakers' Company. | London. | Crawforth 6. | suggest correction | |
HARROCH, G.V. | Germany, c.1700, MIM | Table Sundials = STS, Melk Stift. | the work resembles that of Ulrich Harvolk. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction | |
HART 1 | England, c.1800, MIM SIM | Theodolites = Soth. 3/19/73, D.; Surveyor's Level = D.(1971). | Birmingham. | Bryden 9; Wynter and Turner; RSW. | suggest correction | |
HART 2 | England, PHIM | Stick Barometer = X. | London. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
HART 3 | England, c.1850, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Christie-SK 1/22/88. | Devizes. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HART, JOSEPH | England, fl.1787-1801, OIM | optician. | 5 Digbeth, Birmingham. | Bryden 9. | suggest correction | |
HART, N. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Woolwich. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
HART, NAPHTALY | England, 1801, | patented a goniometer, 1801. | Pimlico, London. | Taylor 2(1153). | suggest correction | |
HART, WILLIAM | USA, 1734-1812, MIM NIM SIM | Backstaves = ADL-A170 (1763), Bourne 11/155/89 (1767); Surveyor's Compass, 1801, and Graphometer, 1753 = New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord. | loyalist; Bourne backstaff made of holly and mahogany. | Portsmouth, N.E. (New Hampshire). | Smart 1; USNM; Bedini 8; Moskowitz 110; D.J. Warner 8; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction |
HARTAULT ET MAGNY | France, 1769, OIM | Nachet. | suggest correction | |||
HARTENSTEIN, CHRISTLIEB BENEDICT FUNCK | Germany, MIM | Christlieb Benedict Funck von Hartenstein; see Funck; globe maker. | Grötzsch 1; RSW. | suggest correction | ||
HARTING-BANK, H.J. | Holland, MIM | scientific instrument maker. | Utrecht. | USNM. | suggest correction | |
HARTLEY, J.G. | Scotland, fl.1820-23, MIM | compass maker. | Newhaven, near Leith. | Taylor 2(1579). | suggest correction | |
HARTLEY, MARCELLUS | USA, 1828-1902, MIM SIM | first worked for Francis Tomes and Co.; worked for Young, Smith and Co. until 1854; then joined Schuyler, Hartley and Graham to 1880; from 1880 to 1900 the firm was known as Hartley and Graham; it was the M. Hartley Company in 1900-02. | 6 Maiden Lane; 2 and 4 Maiden Lane (-1854); 13 Maiden Lane (1854-55); 19 Maiden Lane (1863-64); all in New York, N.Y. | Smart 1. | suggest correction | |
HARTMANN, GEORG | Germany, 1489-1564, MIM | prolific maker of very fine instruments including astrolabes, sundials, etc.; examples may be seen at ADL, PBN, OXF, UTR, NMM, VIE, DRE, PRN, NUR, KES, LIE, FLO, TIM, etc; the dated instruments are from 1524 on. | designer; author; the astronomical compendium at the Adler Planetarium, ADL-A7, is a fake; the rete of the ADL astrolabe is an abberant type. | Nürnberg. | Zinner 1; Lunardi; Price 1 and 3; Michel 1 and 2; Hamilton 1; Czech Inventory; Engelmann 1; NMM 2; ICA 2; Maddison 1; Falcke; Van Cittert 1; Behaim Cat.; DSB; Ward 4; de Rük; J.A. Bennett 2; A.J. Turner 10; Gouk 1; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction |
HARTMANN, LEONHARDUS | Switzerland, fl.1642-48, MIM SIM | Circumferentor and Sundial, 1642 = WUR; Nocturnal, 1648 = ZUR; Proportional Dividers = LID. | St. Gallen. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction | |
HARTNACK, EDMUND | France; Germany, 1826-91, OIM | Microscopes = Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, LEY, Phillips 11/16/88. | Dr. Edmund Hartnack; pupil and partner of Georges Oberhauser, his uncle; see G. Oberhauser and E. Hartnack; joined the firm in 1857; took over the business in 1860; took A. Prazmouski as a partner, 1865-70; went to Potsdam in 1870; Prazmouski stayed in Paris; the firm continued past 1900. | Place Dauphine 21, Paris (1857-70); Potsdam (1870-91). | Pipping 1; Fürst; van der Star 1; G.L'E. Turner 27; Moskowitz 132; RSW. | suggest correction |
HARTSOEKER, NICOLAAS | Holland; France; Germany, 1656-1725, MIM OIM SIM | Leveling Instrument = KAS; Lens, 1688 = LEY; Lens = UTP; Microscope, ivory = KAS. | also made telescopes. | Paris (1678-79); Rotterdam (1679-84); Passy, Paris (1684-96); Düsseldorf (1704-16); Utrecht until 1725. | Rooseboom 1; Evans 1; Michel 3; Dewhirst; Offenbacher; USNM; Daumas 1; Nachet; Clay and Court. | suggest correction |
HARTSTON, JAMES | Ireland, c.1760, MIM | Theodolite = P.C.(1987). | Dublin. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HARVEY AND LEWIS CO., THE | USA, c.1850, | the name appears on a telescope signed "Bardou and Son, Paris." | Hartford and New Haven, Conn., and Springfield, Mass. | Eldred 10/11/75. | suggest correction | |
HARVEY AND PEAK | England, c.1850, PHIM | Leiden Jar = WHI. | London. | G.L'E. Turner 24. | suggest correction | |
HARVEY, THOMAS | England, fl.1657-63, | designed a stereographic quadrant. | Taylor 1(269). | suggest correction | ||
HARVOLK, ULRICH | Austria, 1685, MIM | Skaphe, 1685 = Graz Sternwarte; Table Dial = OXF; Ring Dial = VIE. | Vienna. | Zinner 1; Michel 3. | suggest correction | |
HARVOLKH, HANS ULRICH | MIM | Rule, four sided = VEN. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
HASEBROEK, JOACHIM | Holland, 1672-1756, NIM | Cross-staves, = HAK (1734), Northern Marine Museum, Groningen (1752), Admiralty House, Dokkum (1753). | the name is sometimes spelt "Haasebroek"; the instrument in the HAK is the staff only, no vanes; succeesor to Jacobus Robijn?; Hasebroek bought a set of copper plates for printing nautical charts at the sale of Isaac Swigler's business in 1750. | Nieuwebrugsteeg, Amsterdam (1742). | Mörzer Bruyns 2 & 4; RSW. | suggest correction |
HASENBANCK, JOHANN OTTO | Germany, b. 1682; fl.1715-51, MIM NIM | Magnetic Compass, 1751 = X; Sectors = HAK, X (1715), P.C.; Protractor = D.(1997). | 1751 date for magnetic compass seems to be too late, perhaps a misreading; P.C. and D. signed "Hasenbanck Hamb: Fec:", with the "b" having a cross bar like a "t." | Hamburg. | Schück 2; Rohde; Coffeen 56; RSW. | suggest correction |
HASENFRATZ, KONRAD | see Konrad Dasypodius. | Tooley; Globus, Dec., 1956. | suggest correction | |||
HASERT, PROF. BRUNO | USA, 1851, OIM | Microscope = CZJ. | Cincinnati, Ohio. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HASHAM, STEPHEN | see Stephen Hassam. | Smart 1. | suggest correction | |||
HASLAM, HENRY | England, fl.1668-1675, OIM | member of the Spectaclemakers' Company by 1668; had Gregory Tengay as an apprentice, 1668-1675; Master as proxy for Turlington, Jan.1668-69; his widow carried on as owner after July 1675. | St. Clement Danes, London (1670). | Dewhirst; Court and von Rohr 3(15); Crawforth 6. | suggest correction | |
HASLAM, MRS. | England, c.1675, OIM | the widow of Henry Haslam; she took over Gregory Tengay as an apprentice, he was made free of the Spectaclemakers' Company on July 1, 1675. | London. | Court and von Rohr 3(15); Crawforth 6. | suggest correction | |
HASSALL AND CO. | England, c.1797, MIM | rule makers. | Bull Street, Birmingham. | Bryden 9. | suggest correction | |
HASSAM, STEPHEN | USA, c.1788, MIM SIM | Graphometer, 1788 = Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, Mich. | clockmaker. | Charlestown, New Hampshire. | Smart 1; Bedini 17. | suggest correction |
HASSELSTROM, JOHAN GUSTAF | Sweden, 1747-1812, MIM OIM SIM | Instruments (9) = STT; Microscope = Physics Institute, Uppsala University; Universal Equatorial Sundial = SWE; Surveying Instrument = NOR; Transverse Scale = STM. | Johan Gustaf Hasselström, apprenticed to G.O. Duhre; in business alone in 1775; brief partnership with Johan Ihrmark; instrument maker to the Royal Swedish Academy of Science, 1777-1812; taught by J.P. Rosenberg; signed some instruments "I.G.H." (3), which see. | Stockholm. | Pipping 1; Fürst; Coffeen 9; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction |
HASSENFRATZ, J.H. | France, c.1805, PHIM | Barometer, siphon-type, 1805 = CNAM. | scale marked "Divisé et Gravé par Lorichon, floreal an 13", (April, 1805). | Middleton 1. | suggest correction | |
HASSLER, FERDINAND RUDOLPH | Switzerland; USA, 1770-1843, MIM PHIM | Balance = USNM; Repeating Circle = USNM. | first superintendent of the Coast Survey, 1817-43; worked with Benjamin Stancliff in 1834. | Washington, D.C. | USNM. | suggest correction |
HASSLER, IZAAC | USA, 1848, OIM | manufactured all kinds of optical glass. | Philadelphia, Pa. | USNM. | suggest correction | |
HATCH, JOHN | England, c.1693, MIM | apprenticed to Henry Wynne of the Clockmakers' Company on April 6, 1685; free of the Company on July 3, 1693. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
HATFIELD, A.L. | USA, c.1830, MIM | Adding Machine = P.C. | "Inventor and Manufacturer." | Lewisburg, Pa. | RSW. | suggest correction |
HATFIELD, JOHN | England, c.1676, OIM | member of the Spectaclemakers' Company. | London. | Crawforth 6. | suggest correction | |
HATTON, EDWARD | England, c.1721, | author; invented a diagonal circular instrument to convert measurements, weights, etc. into decimal units. | Mancevice 8. | suggest correction | ||
HATTON, JOHN 1 | England, c.1700, MIM | Evans 1. | suggest correction | |||
HATTON, JOHN 2 | England, c.1779, | won an award on how to obtain an invariable measure of length. | London. | Taylor 2(728). | suggest correction | |
HATTON, THOMAS | England, fl.1740-74, MIM PHIM | made slide rules for hydrostatic balances, also various other rules and balances. | Lancashire (pre-1766); London (by 1772). | Taylor 2(362); Bryden 9. | suggest correction | |
HAUER, JOH. | Germany, 1617, MIM | Celestial Globe Goblet on Atlas, 1617 = Albertinum, Dresden. | Nürnberg. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HAUG, G. FR. | Germany, 18th Century, NIM | Sextant, wood = BAS. | Stuttgart. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction | |
HAUKSBEE, FRANCIS 1 | England, b.1666 fl.1700-13, PHIM | Air Pump = Longleat House, Wilts.; Balance = OXF. | invented a double barrel air pump; "Operator to the Royal Society"; F.R.S.; uncle to Francis Hauksbee 2; author. | Giltspur Street, without Newgate; Wine Office Court, Fleet Street; Hind Court, Fleet Street; all in London. | Taylor 1(519); Goodison 1; Clay and Court; Dewhirst; Daumas 1; DNB; USNM; G.L'E. Turner 24; A.J. Turner 10; Middleton 1. | suggest correction |
HAUKSBEE, FRANCIS 2 | England, 1687-1763, OIM PHIM | Stick Barometers = P.C.(2), K.and C. 4/7/76; Electrical Machine = KEN; Thermometer = X. | T.C.; designed a telescope with John Hadley; nephew of and apprenticed to Francis Hauksbee 1; made telescopes. | near St. Dunstan's Church, Crane Court, Fetter Lane, London. | Taylor 1(553); Taylor 2(63); Goodison 1; DNB; Calvert 2; Dewhirst; Daumas 1; USNM; A.J. Turner 10; Middleton 1. | suggest correction |
HAULL, AREVIDSSEN | Norway, OIM | Telescope = OMM. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
HAUPOIX, JEAN | France, b.1761 fl.1786-95, MIM | Micrometer, 1795 = CNAM; Micrometers = CNAM; Equatorial Instrument, incomplete = CNAM; mounting for Dollond Telescope = NMM. | invented a complicated equatorial instrument. | 6 rue Bourg-l'Abbé, Paris. | Cons. Nat'l 1; Destombes 4; Daumas 1; Nachet; NMM 2; USNM. | suggest correction |
HAUSELEY, WILLIAM | England, c.1720, | apprenticed in 1706 to Thomas Cooke 2 in the Joiners' Company; may be "Houlsey"; free in the Company, 1720. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | ||
HAUSER | Astronomical Ring, silver, marked "Hauser Augsburg" = Soth. 7/12/71 = P.C.; Universal Ring Sundial marked "Hauser Wein" = P.C. | both of these instruments are modern English forgeries, probably by Williams. | Brieux 4; RSW. | suggest correction | ||
HAUSER, MATHIAS | Austria, c.1728, | invented a form of universal ring sundial, which was made by Bernard Polanski, which see. | Vienna? | Zinner 1; MADEX; NMM 2; Roussel Coll. | suggest correction | |
HAUTEFEUILLE, ABBE JEAN DE | France, OIM | Abbé Jean de Hautefeuille; made a microscope with a micrometer. | Nachet. | suggest correction | ||
HAUTPOIS | variant spelling for Haupoix. | USNM. | suggest correction | |||
HAUTSCH, VAL. | Germany, 18th Century, MIM | Equatorial Table Sundial = LIN; Horizontal Sundial = Koller 11/17/75 | Heidelberg. | Zinner 1; Evans 1; RSW. | suggest correction | |
HAUXLEY, EDWARD | England, fl.1736-46, | claimed to have designed an improved azimuth compass; author. | London. | Taylor 2(270). | suggest correction | |
HAVART, WILLIAM | Scotland, c.1662, MIM | Horizontal Sundial, bronze, 1662 = RSM. | Bryden 3; Morrison-Low. | suggest correction | ||
HAVARTI, GUGLIELMUS | England, | see William Howard. | Somerville. | suggest correction | ||
HAVARTO, GULIEMO | Italy; Scotland?, c.1660, MIM | Horizontal Sundial, 1660 = Fife Folk Museum, Ceres; Garden Sundial = RSM. | "authore"; "Cello Cuthberti"; "mathematicko"; the garden dial is for the latitude of Edinburgh. | Edinburgh? | Bryden 3; RSW. | suggest correction |
HAVEAS, THEODORUS | Holland, c.1576, MIM | Polyhedral Sundial = Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. | Cleves. | Gatty. | suggest correction | |
HAVET | Belgium?, 1795, MIM | Garden Sundial, slate, 1795 = LIE. | Michel 9. | suggest correction | ||
HAVILAND, WILLIAM | England, 1718-84, | Col. William Haviland; invented a military slide rule called the Haviland, made by Anthony Lamb in 1760. | Bedini 8. | suggest correction | ||
HAWES 1 | England, MIM | Equatorial Sundial = Soth. 2/21/66. | London. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HAWES 2 | England, PHIM | Stick Barometers = Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight, Soth.-S 10/19/89; Baroeter = Soth.-S 10/19/89. | London. | Goodison 1; RSW. | suggest correction | |
HAWES, JOHN | England, fl.1670-78, OIM | member of the Spectaclemakers' Company; took apprentices. | Creechurch (1670); Little Eastcheap (1672); both in London. | Crawforth 6. | suggest correction | |
HAWIS | England, c.1850, OIM | Telescope = Chevau-Légers 2/28/82. | perhaps a dealer; signed also "from Dollonds." | 79 Lidenhall Street, London. | RSW. | suggest correction |
HAWKES 1 | England, c.1755, MIM | developed an orrery. | Wynter and Turner. | suggest correction | ||
HAWKES 2 | England, | see Brookes and Hawkes | Birmingham. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HAWKES, STEPHEN | England, fl.1852-74, MIM | 17 Great Sutton Street, Clerkenwell (1852-56); 22 Great Sutton Street (1868-74); both in London. | O'Mara. | suggest correction | ||
HAWKINS | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Southampton. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
HAWKINS, JOHN ISAAC | USA, c.1801, | invented the "Physiognotrace", a machine to draw silhouettes. | Bedini 8. | suggest correction | ||
HAWKINS, THOMAS | England, fl.1820-36, MIM PHIM | 16 Perry (or Percy) Street, King's Cross, London. | Taylor 2(1582); O'Mara. | suggest correction | ||
HAWKS | see Hall and Hawks. | suggest correction | ||||
HAWKSBEE | misreading for Hauksbee. | suggest correction | ||||
HAWNEY, WILLIAM | England, fl.1710-50, MIM | author of "The Complete Measurer" (1717); supplied sundials and quadrants. | Lydd, Kent. | Taylor 2(64); Evans 1. | suggest correction | |
HAWTHORN, ROBERT | England, c.1832, | civil engineer; devised a hinged, engineering slide rule in 1832, made by G.T. Brumell. | Newcastle-on-Tyne. | Delehar 9. | suggest correction | |
HAWTHORNE, E. | England, OIM | Telescope = D.(1971). | London. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HAY | Scotland, PHIM | Stick Barometer = D.(1972). | Regency. | Aberdeen. | RSW. | suggest correction |
HAY AND LYALL | Scotland, MIM | Surveyor's Compass = D.(1972). | 2 Market Street, Aberdeen. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HAY, CMDR. | England, c.1840, | Protractor with pointers = P.C. | probably the owner; the insciption includes "invented instrument - J.R. Stebbing, F.R.A.S." | Southampton. | RSW. | suggest correction |
HAYCOCK, SAMUEL | England, fl.1770-1818, MIM | apprenticed to John Mansell, ran away May 16, 1770; made surveyor's tapes, etc. | Bagot Street; Woodcock Street; both in Birmingham. | Taylor 2(2147); Bryden 9. | suggest correction | |
HAYDEN, JOHN | USA, PHIM | Stick Barometer = BMM. | "improved marine barometer." | Bath, Me. | RSW. | suggest correction |
HAYDON | England, fl.1825-40, PHIM | see Williams and Haydon; barometer makers. | Aldermanbury, London. | Goodison 1; Bell 2; RSW. | suggest correction | |
HAYE | France, c.1716, MIM SIM | Butterfield-type Sundials = ADL-A3, ADL-A242, NMM, FLO, Schuhmann Coll., P.C.(1969), Christie 4/3/85; Inclinable Sundial = ADL-DPW2; Universal Ring Sundials = SPI-2840, Soth. 12/12/55; Horizontal Sundial = D.(1976); Proportional Dividers = NMM; Sectors = NMM-DI, BRP; Set of Astronomical Instruments = MERC = Constantin Coll. = Soth. 7/5/55 = OXF; Compass = PAC; Graphometer = P.C.; Horizontal Sundial, with movable hour plate = WHI; etc. | "Ingénieur"; surely Thomas Haye; devised "La Règle Horaire" and wrote a book about it, 1716. | Paris. | Daumas 1; NMM 2; Michel 3; Brieux 2; Pippa; MADEX; Nachet; Hamilton 1; Maddison 5; A.J. Turner 10; Bryden 16; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction |
HAYE, THOMAS | France, 18th Century, MIM | Butterfield-type Sundial = Soth. 4/16/56. | the sundial is signed "T. Haye". | Paris. | Evans 1. | suggest correction |
HAYES, JAMES | England, fl.1785-96, MIM NIM | Octant ,"made for Thomas Spencer" = Liverpool Museum. | Old Dock No.63 then No.67 and later No.57, Liverpool. | Taylor 2(846). | suggest correction | |
HAYES, NICHOLAS | misreading for W. Hayes on ADL-T28. | Dyer. | suggest correction | |||
HAYES, W. | Nocturnal = ADL-T28; Sundials = ADL-T34 and ADL-T36. | the nocturnal and the sundials are modern instruments made by D.B. Sheehan, New York, c.1900. | Tomlinson 1; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction | ||
HAYES, WALTER | England, fl.1642-92, MIM | Astrolabe = BM (ICA-445); Panorganons = ADL-T35, SAN, GEL; sundials, rules and sectors may be found in ADL, OXF, NMM, KEN, Newbury Museum, BMR, BM, NYM, etc. | apprenticed to John Allen 1, of the Grocers' Company, on Feb. 22, 1631; free of the Company, June 14, 1642; admitted to the Clockmakers' Company in 1667; Master of the Clockmakers' Company in 1680; he was one of the most skillful instrument makers and engravers of the period; T.C. | Birchin Lane, Cornhill; Sign of the Cross Daggers, next the Pope's Head Tavern, Moorfields; both in London. | Taylor 1(251); J. Brown 1 & 3; Michel 3; NMM 2; Dewhirst; Daumas 1; Price 1, 2 and 3; ICA-2; Belgian Inventory; Calvert 2; Ward 4; Baillie 1; Nachet; Crawforth 1; J.A. Bennett 2; Leybourn; Tomlinson 1; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction |
HAYMAN | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Launceston. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
HAYNES, ROBERT | England, c.1779, | apprenticed to John Blake in the Joiners' Company on Sept. 28, 1779. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | ||
HAYTON, D. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Christie-SK 5/20/88. | Hereford. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HAYWARD | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Ashford. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
HAZARD, E.M. | c.1780, NIM | Octant = Mystic Seaport, Conn. | might be the owner. | The Log of Mystic Seaport, Summer, 1941. | suggest correction | |
HAZELZET, JOS. | Holland, PHIM | Stick Barometer = Soth.-A June, 1977. | Rotterdam. | Mörzer Bruyns 2. | suggest correction | |
HEADLAM | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | 4 Silver Street, Stockton-on-Tees. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
HEADY, GEORGE | England, c.1675, | apprenticed to Daniel Quare 1 in the Clockmakers' Company, 1675. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
HEALD, ALFRED | England, c.1850, OIM PHIM | Wheel Barometers = X. | watch and clock maker, optician, barometer maker, sometimes signed "Heald" or "A. Heald." | High Street, Wisbech. | Goodison 1; Bell 2. | suggest correction |
HEALY, JOHN | Ireland, fl.1806-12, PHIM | made electrical machines. | 43 Jame's Street, Dublin. | Morrison-Low and Burnett. | suggest correction | |
HEALY, SAMUEL | Ireland, fl.1795-1839, MIM PHIM | sometimes spelled Healey; made electrical machines; electrician; chandler. | 43 James's Street, Dublin. | Bryden 9; Morrison-Low and Burnett. | suggest correction | |
HEARN, C. | Scotland, c.1850, PHIM | Stick Barometer = Soth. 10/16/86. | Montrose. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HEARNE AND HARRISON | Canada, MIM SIM | surveying and other instruments. | Montreal. | USNM. | suggest correction | |
HEARNE, GEORGE | England, fl.1705-55, MIM OIM | Telescope, 1690 = DRE; Telescopes = DRE, LEY, MLL, P.C.; Micrometer = DRE; Instrument Etui = RSM. | apprenticed to Edward Barber of the Joiners' Company, Feb 1, 1697; free of the Company, Sept. 4, 1705; took an apprentice; sometimes spelled "Hearn"; he made a zenith sector with George Graham; made early, large reflecting telescopes; rectangular protractor in RSM etui is signed. | Dogwell Court, White Friars, Fleet Street (1737-41); Sign of the Sphere, Sergeant's Inn, Chancery Lane; both in London. | Taylor 2(185a); Daumas 1; Clay and Court; Grötzsch 2; Drechsler 2; Crawforth 7; A.J. Turner 10; RSW. | suggest correction |
HEARNE, JOHN | England, c.1741, | apprenticed to his father, George Hearne of the Joiners' Company on Jan. 9, 1732; free of the Company, Jan. 12, 1741. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | ||
HEARTTE, ISAAC T. | USA, 1785-1836, | sea captain; published "Heartte's Lunar Tables"; partner of John G. Brown (1830-31), see Brown and Heartte; partner of William Ewin from 1833 until Heartte's death in 1836, see Ewin and Heartte; probably only his partners were instrument makers. | Baltimore, Md. | Smart 1; Coffeen B; USNM. | suggest correction | |
HEATH 1 | England, pre-1793, OIM | Compound Microscope = Earl of Bute Sale, 2/5/1793. | G.L'E. Turner 2. | suggest correction | ||
HEATH 2 | England, c.1850, MIM OIM PHIM | Binocular Microscope = D.(1972); Rule, ivory, = Soth. 10/15/73; Stick Barometer = X; Telescope = Frank Coll. | "Optician"; probably Thomas C. Heath or William Heath 2. | Plymouth. | Roux-Devilas Cat. No. 73; Goodison 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
HEATH AND CO. | England, fl.1845-1910, NIM | 2 Tower Royal, Cannon Street; Crayford (1905); New Eltham, S.E.9; all in London. | Brewington; RSW. | suggest correction | ||
HEATH AND CORNISH | England, fl.1850-52, MIM OIM PHIM | William Heath and Thomas Cornish; barometer and instrument makers. | 46 Fore Street, Devonport (1850-52). | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
HEATH AND WING | England, 1751-73, MIM NIM OIM PHIM | they made a wide range of instruments,including grand orreries, sundials, barometers, hodometers, pantographs, sextants, microscopes, etc.; examples may be seen at OXF, NMM, WHI, CNAM, USNM, ADL, Cooke's Shop in CMY, Castle Howard, etc. | T.C.; Thomas Heath 1 and Tycho Wing; Wing was apprenticed to Heath, his father-in-law, on May 27, 1741 and became free of the Grocers' Company on Sept. 5 1751; Thomas Newman took over the firm in 1773. | Hercules and Globe, Fountain Tavern, Exeter Exchange, in ye Strand, (1759), London. | Taylor 2(362a); USNM; Goodison 1; Nachet; Baillie 1; Bryden 9 and 16; J.Brown 1; Calvert 2; Wynter 1 and 2; Crawforth 1; Hillier; Court and von Rohr 3(XXIV); ADL; RSW. | suggest correction |
HEATH, F. 1 | England, c.1900, MIM | Water Clock, dated 1675 = Sussex Archaeological Museum, Lewes. | made by Pearson Page and Co., Birmingham. | Devonport. | Stevens and Aked; RSW. | suggest correction |
HEATH, F. 2 | England, MIM | Equatorial Ring Sundial = NAC. | London. | Nachet. | suggest correction | |
HEATH, G. | England, c.1850, NIM | Octants = Ladd Observatory, Brown U., Providence, R.I., ADL-W166. | Erith, Kent. | ADL; RSW. | suggest correction | |
HEATH, J. 1 | England, c.1740, MIM | Universal Ring Dial with Compass = Evans Coll.; Equatorial Sundial = Wray-80. | Gatty; RSW. | suggest correction | ||
HEATH, J. 2 | England, c.1820, MIM | Astrolabe, 1820 = Buffalo Museum of Science, N.Y. | London. | USNM. | suggest correction | |
HEATH, J. 3 | c.1890, MIM | Equatorial Sundial = P.C. | may have been made by D.B. Sheehan, New York, N.Y. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HEATH, THOMAS 1 | England, fl.1720-73, MIM NIM PHIM SIM | he made a wide range of instruments including grand orreries, sundials, barometers, hodometers, surveying instruments, a quadrant designed by Isaac Newton, etc.; examples of his work are at ADL, APS, OXF, CNAM, USNM, KEN, PAC, NMM, WHI, etc. | T.C.; he was apprenticed to Benjamin Scott of the Grocers' Company, 1712; free of the Company, 1720; took Tycho Wing, his son-in-law, as a partner, 1751; Master of the Company, 1773. | London; near the Fountain Tavern in the Strand (1720); at the Hercules and Globe, next the Fountain Tavern, near Exeter Exchange, Strand (1729); Hercules and Globe near Beaufort Buildings in the Strand (1734-73). | Taylor 1(575) & 2(66); Goodison 1; Cons. Nat'l 1; Calvert 2; J. Brown 1; Michel 3; USNM; Crawforth 1; Bryden 16; Multhauf 1; Maddison 3; G.L'E. Turner 24; J.A. Bennett 2; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction |
HEATH, THOMAS 2 | England, 1746, | apprenticed to his father, Thomas Heath 1, of the Grocers' Company on June 6, 1746. | London. | J. Brown 1. | suggest correction | |
HEATH, THOMAS C. | England, c.1850, OIM PHIM | Telescope, eight draw = DeLuca 8/1/87. | optician; barometer maker; watchmaker; the telescope was signed "Heath, 24 George St. Plymouth;" see Heath 2. | 24 George Street, Plymouth. | Bell 2; RSW. | suggest correction |
HEATH, THOMAS CORNISH | see Heath and Cornish. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |||
HEATH, WILLIAM 1 | England, fl.1850-57, MIM OIM PHIM | Theodolites = P.C. (1968), Christie 4/3/85; Stadiometers = OXF, Christie 7/12/67. | often signed "W. Heath"; worked with Thomas Cornish in 1850; "Optician." | 46 Fore Street (1850-52); 116 Fore Street (1857); both in Devonport. | Taylor 2(1879a); Goodison 1; Bell 2; G.L'E. Turner 24; RSW. | suggest correction |
HEATH, WILLIAM 2 | England, c.1850, MIM PHIM SIM | Stick Barometer = Soth. 7/28/72; Theodolite = Ineichen 10/20/75; Microscope - Christie 11/22/78. | see Heath 2. | 24 George Street, Plymouth. | RSW. | suggest correction |
HEATHCOTE, P. | England, PHIM | barometer maker. | Burnley. | Bell 2. | suggest correction | |
HEATHER, NICHOLAS | England, c.1700, | apprenticed to Thomas Tompion in the Clockmakers' Company. | Robischon. | suggest correction | ||
HEATHER, WILLIAM | England, fl.1763-1815, NIM | Hadley's Quadrant = OMM; Reflecting Circle = NMM; Sextants, ebony and ivory = P. & S. 4/3/1894, Philadelphia, PA. Maritime Museum, P.C. | T.C.; some instruments signed "Heather"; succeeded by J.W. Norie and Co.; sold charts, books, instruments, etc. | The Navigation Warehouse, 157 Leadenhall Street, London. | Taylor 2(604); Calvert 2; Brewington 1; NMM 2; RSW. | suggest correction |
HEATING | see Straub and Heating. | RSW. | suggest correction | |||
HEBAN | France, c.1785, MIM | Héban; he made the frame for the large quadrant at the Paris Observatory. | Paris. | Daumas 1. | suggest correction | |
HEBERT | France, PHIM | Hébert; designed a variant of the zograscope; an example may be found at Colonial Williamsburg, Va. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
HEBRAEUS, BENEDICT | c.1643, | independently invented the Vernier scale. | A.J. Turner 10. | suggest correction | ||
HEBRAEUS, LEO | see Levi ben Gerson. | Michel 3. | suggest correction | |||
HECKER, ARNOLD | Germany, 1678, MIM | Theodolite, 1678 = BRE-234. | Leostein. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction | |
HECKINGER, DANIEL | Germany, fl.1640-55, MIM | Armillary Sphere = P.C.(1969); Universal Ring Sundial = DRE (lost). | Augsburg. | Bobinger 2; Zinner 1; Guye and Michel; RSW. | suggest correction | |
HEDGE, L. | USA, c.1850, MIM | Gunter Rule, boxwood = D.(1995). | see Lemuel Hedge. | Hartford, Con. | Coffeen 51. | suggest correction |
HEDGE, LEMUEL | USA, 1827, | invented a machine for dividing scales, patented in 1827; see L. Hedge and Son. | Windsor; Brattleboro; both in Vermont. | Bedini 8; Coffeen 51. | suggest correction | |
HEDLEY, JOHN | England, c.1849, | Inspector of Mines; invented a form of a miners' surveying compass, c.1849. | Coffeen D; G.L'E. Turner 24. | suggest correction | ||
HEEBER, C.G. | Holland, fl.1826-29, MIM | instrument and compass maker. | Ould Waal 11 (1826-27); Buitenkant, 2nd house off the Kalkmarkt (1828); both in Amsterdam. | Mörzer Bruyns 2. | suggest correction | |
HEEMSTEDE, BARON VAN UTENHAVE VAN | Belgium, | marked on vertical sundial, 1831, at UTR. | Jutphaas. | deRijk. | suggest correction | |
HEERDEN, JAN VAN | Holland, c.1742, MIM | instrument maker, 1742. | Warmoesstraat, Amsterdam. | Mörzer Bruyns 2. | suggest correction | |
HEGGENAUR, JOHANN BALTHASAR | Germany, 1713-79, MIM | sundial maker; see I.B.H. | Augsburg. | Bobinger 2. | suggest correction | |
HEGGIN, FRANCIS VAN | Scotland, c.1669, MIM | submitted a sundial as proof of his competence, to the Incorporation of Hammermen of Canongate, 1669. | Edinburgh. | Bryden 15. | suggest correction | |
HEIDANUS, PIETER SIERDS | Holland, 19th Century, OIM | Telescope = FRI. | Hallum. | Rooseboom 1. | suggest correction | |
HEIDEN, CHRISTIAN | Germany, 1526-76, MIM | Astrolabe, 1552, (ICA-553); Globes, Sundials, Quadrants, Pillar Sundials, Diptych Sundials, Skaphes, etc.; examples may be seen at OXF, DRE, NUR, KAS, KEN, VIE, etc. | invented a new form of level. | Nürnberg. | Zinner 1; Gunther 1 and 2; Abeler 1; Michel 1 and 2; Baillie 1; Drechsler 2; Behaim Cat.; Lubke; ICA 2; Price 1; Maurice; Lunardi; Gouk 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
HEIDEN, JOANNES-PAULINUS | Germany, 1577, MIM | Astronomical Compendium, 1577 = NMM-D.269. | might be the son of Christian Heiden. | Nürnberg. | Michel 1, 2 and 3; NMM 2. | suggest correction |
HEIGHMORE, NATHANIEL | England, 1613-85, MIM | Quadrant with Nocturnal = Ilbert Coll. | may be dated 1633. | Dorsetshire; London. | Taylor 1(178); Clay and Court; Daumas 1; Baillie 1. | suggest correction |
HEIGHWAY | England, PHIM | Stick Barometer = X. | Cambridge. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
HEILMANN, C.W. | Germany, 18th Century, MIM | Mechanical Equatorial Sundial = WHI. | Bryden 16. | suggest correction | ||
HEIN, HANNS | Germany, 1555, PHIM | Balance with Level, 1555 = DRE. | Drechsler 2. | suggest correction | ||
HEINING, CHRISTIANUS | Germany, c.1650, PHIM | Sand Glass with four flasks = BASH. | Leipzig; Thurm. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HEINLEIN, JOHANN JAKOB | Germany, 1623, MIM | Augsburg-type Sundial, incomplete, 1623 = Art Institute, Chicago, Ill. | this is made up from parts of two different sundials; signed "Johann Jakob Heinlein fecit Februarius, 1623 Nürnberg"; the signature, "And. Vogler" appears on another part. | Nürnberg. | Zinner 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
HEINRICH, JOHAN | Germany, 1590, MIM | Astrolabe Plate, 1590 = Landesmuseum, Zurich. | calendar on the back. | Ober Kan. | RSW. | suggest correction |
HEINTZ, MATTHAUS | Germany, 1631, MIM | Circumferentor, 1631 = DRE (damaged during the war); Astronomical Compendium = PRA. | Zinner lists the PRA instrument under "Haintz." | Zwickaw; Leipzig. | Zinner 1; Grötzsch 2; Horsky and Skopova; Drechsler 2; Evans 1; Czech Inventory. | suggest correction |
HEINTZ, MICEL | Germany, MIM | Artillery Level = STU. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
HEINZE | Denmark, PHIM | Sympsiometer = Den Gamle By, Aarhus. | Copenhagen. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HEISELY AND SON | USA, fl.1811-pre1843, MIM | Surveyor's Compass = Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, Mich. | Frederick Heisely and his son George Jacob Heisely; also listed as clockmakers. | Harrisburg, Pa. | Smart 1. | suggest correction |
HEISELY, FREDERICK | USA, 1759-1843, MIM SIM | Surveyor's Compasses = Ohio State Museum, Columbus/ Audubon Shrine, Audubon, Pa./ William Penn Memorial Museum, Harrisburg, Pa./ P.C. (2)/ USNM. | apprenticed to George Hoff; see Hoff and Heisely; also made clocks. | Fredericktown, Md. (1783-93) and (1798-1811); Lancaster, Pa. (1793-98); Harrisburg, Pa. (1811-43). | Smart 1; Bedini 1 and 17; USNM. | suggest correction |
HEISELY, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS | USA, 1792-1875, MIM SIM | Surveyor's Compasses = GUR, Blair County Historical Society, Altoona, Pa. | son of Frederick Heisely and brother of George Jacob Heisely. | Harrisburg, Pa. (1815?-1836); 6 St. Clair Street, Pittsburgh, Pa. (1837-71). | Bedini 1 & 8; Smart 1; USNM. | suggest correction |
HEISELY, GEORGE JACOB | USA, 1789-1880, MIM SIM | Surveyor's Compasses = Campus Martius, Marietta, Ohio/ William Penn Memorial Museum, Harrisburg, Pa. | son of Frederick Heisely and probably apprenticed to him; partner with him as Heisely and Son, from 1811 until Frederick Heisely retired; he was the brother of Frederick Augustus Heisely; he was also listed as a clockmaker. | Fredericktown, Md.; West Corner of Second and Walnut Streets, Harrisburg, Pa.(1838-80). | Bedini 1 and 17; Smart 1; USNM. | suggest correction |
HEISS, CAROLUS ANSELMUS | Austria, 1749, MIM | Pedometer, 1749 = ADL-M232. | he described himself as a "Geometrica." | Linz. | Engelmann 1; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction |
HELDEN, ONESIPHORUS | Germany, fl.1632-48, MIM | Sundial = Christie 10/16/62. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
HELFFRICHT, CHARLES F. | Germany; USA, 1816-63, MIM NIM OIM PHIM SIM | Surveyor's Compass, 1853 = GUR; Surveyor's Compass = D.(1972). | made or sold nautical compasses; joined his brother, William Helffricht, in 1841; the name is sometimes spelled Helffrecht or Helfbright. | 54 Vine Street (1841); Sign of the Quadrant, 122 South Front Street, between Walnut and Dock Streets (1849-57); 140 South Sixth Street (1859); all in Philadelphia, Pa. | Smart 1; USNM; D.J. Warner 10 and 12.; RSW. | suggest correction |
HELFFRICHT, WILLIAM | Germany; USA, 1807-76, MIM NIM OIM PHIM SIM | Surveyor's Compasses = Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, D.(1971), X; D.(1986). | T.C.; settled in Philadelphia in 1825; succeeded William Davenport in 1838; brother of Charles F. Helffricht who joined him in 1841. | at the old established stand of the late William Davenport, Sign of the Quadrant, No. 25 South Front Street (1829); Sign of the Quadrant, 240 South Front Street; both in Philadelphia, Pa. | Smart 1; Moskowitz 103; USNM; D.J. Warner 10 and 12; RSW. | suggest correction |
HELIG, JOHN | USA, 1765-1841, MIM SIM | Surveyor's Compass = Weschler Auction 5/22/76. | clockmaker, silversmith. | Germantown, Pa. | Smart 1. | suggest correction |
HELLEMANS, PETRUS | Austria; Italy, 1706, OIM | Lens, 1706 = DEU. | "opticus." | Rome from 1706 on. | Pipping 1; Daumas 1. | suggest correction |
HELLER AND BRIGHTLY | USA, 1870-1912, MIM SIM | Transit = D.(1994). | Charles S. Heller and Charles H. Brightly were partners from 1870 to 1889 when Brightly retired; Heller continued the firm until he died in 1912. | Philadelphia, Pa. | Smart 1; Garcelon 33. | suggest correction |
HELLER, CHARLES S. | USA, 1839-1912, MIM SIM | worked for William J. Young, 1855-67; partner in William J. Young and Co. with William J. Young and Thomas N. Watson, 1867-70; formed a partnership with Charles H. Brightly in 1870 as Heller and Brightly; the firm continued until Heller's death in 1912. | Philadelphia, Pa. | Smart 1. | suggest correction | |
HELLERMAN | misreading for Hellemans | Daumas 1. | suggest correction | |||
HELLESTROM | Sweden, OIM | Telescope = SWE. | Peter or Carl Peter Helleström. | Stockholm. | Pipping 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
HELLESTROM, CARL PETER | Sweden, 1792-1853, OIM | son of Peter Hellestrom; sometimes spelled Hellström. | Stockholm. | Pipping 1. | suggest correction | |
HELLESTROM, PETER | Sweden, 1758-1826, OIM | Set of Telescopes for the optical telegraph, 1810 = X; Microscopes = SWE. | carried on Carl Odelstierna's shop from 1795 on; sometimes spelled Hellström. | Stockholm. | Pipping 1 and 2. | suggest correction |
HELLIER, JAMES | England, fl.1793-1807, PHIM | made sand glasses for the Navy. | London. | Taylor 1(988). | suggest correction | |
HELLMUTH, CHARLES GABRIEL | England, 1786, MIM | apprenticed to William Morris of the Grocers' Company, Dec. 7, 1786. | London. | J. Brown 1. | suggest correction | |
HELLYER, THOMAS | England, 1774, NIM | Octant, ebony and ivory, 1774 = RSM. | London. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HELMSLEY, JOSHUA | see Thomas and Joshua Helmley. | Taylor 2(1583). | suggest correction | |||
HELMSLEY, THOMAS | England, fl.1819-46, MIM NIM | Gunter's Scale = PEA; Hadley's Quadrants = VNN, X. | he was joined by his brother, Joshua, in 1826; joined by his son in 1837. | 11 King Street, (Litle) Tower Hill (1836) and 4 King Street, London. | Taylor 2(1354) & (1583); Coulson; Brewington 1. | suggest correction |
HELMSLEY, THOMAS AND JOSHUA | England, fl.1826-36, MIM OIM | Instrument = X. | 11 King Street, Tower Hill, London. | Taylor 2(1583); Brewington 1. | suggest correction | |
HELMSLEY, THOMAS, AND SON | England, c.1837, NIM OIM | Sextant = Soth. 6/16/75; Octant = VNN. | T.C. | 4 King Street, Tower Hill, London. | Brewington 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
HELSBECCIUS, M. JOH. | Germany, fl.1590-99, MIM | Perpetual Calendars, stone, 1590 = HAK, DEU. | the calendar in HAK is also marked "R.F." (1); a STU Catalogue of 1913 shows a clockmaker named Helsbeccius in 1599. | Zinner 1; Evans 1; RSW. | suggest correction | |
HELVELIUS, HOWEKLE | Holland, c.1700, MIM | Celestial Globe = NMM-Caird. | Amsterdam. | NMM 2. | suggest correction | |
HELY, ALFRED AUGUSTUS | England, c.1850, OIM | Pocket Reflecting Telescope = X. | 26 Upper Albany Street, Regent's Park, London. | USNM. | suggest correction | |
HELYE | France, 18th Century, MIM | Universal Ring Sundial, with case = CNAM. | Cons. Nat'l 1; Destombes 4. | suggest correction | ||
HEMINGWAY, ROBERT | England, fl.1848-49, PHIM | barometer and thermometer maker. | 18 Brook Street, London. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
HEMPEL | France, c.1842, PHIM | Balance = CNAM. | see Hamann et Hempel. | Cons. Nat'l 1; Destombes 4. | suggest correction | |
HEMPLER, H.H. | USA, 1790-1873, MIM OIM PHIM | patented a pocket sundial July 18, 1865. | Washington, D.C. (1868-73). | USNM. | suggest correction | |
HEMPSTEAD, G. | USA, 18th Century, MIM SIM | Surveyor's Compass, wood = D.(pre-1983). | Walpole, Mass. | Price 2. | suggest correction | |
HEMSLEY | England, c.1800-1860, OIM | Telescopes = D.(1974), DeLuca 10/24/81. | London. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HEMSLEY, HENRY 1 | England, fl.1786-89, OIM PHIM | member of the Spectaclemakers' Company; took over Thomas Hemsley 1 as an apprentice from James Martin in 1789. | 85 Fleet Street, London. | J. Brown 1; Millburn 11. | suggest correction | |
HEMSLEY, HENRY 2 | England, fl.1828-56, NIM OIM PHIM SIM | Octants = FRK, Atwater Kent Museum, Phila. Pa., Soth. 3/19/73; Marine Barometers = X, Phillips 11/16/88. | 135 Ratcliff Highway (1828-45); 140 St.George Street (1846); 140 Ratcliff Highway; 140 St. George Street, East: all in London. | Taylor 2(2148); Goodison 1; RSW. | suggest correction | |
HEMSLEY, J., AND SON | England, OIM | Telescope = Soth.-B 3/2/79. | 4 King Street, Tower Hill, London. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HEMSLEY, RICHARD JOHN | England, c.1850, NIM | Sextant = New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord. | London. | USNM. | suggest correction | |
HEMSLEY, THOMAS 1 | England, c.1801, MIM OIM | apprenticed to James Martin of the Grocers' Company on June 3, 1784; turned over to Henry Hemsley 1, of the Spectaclemakers' Company on Feb. 14, 1789; free of the Grocers' Company on May 7, 1801. | J. Brown 1 & 2. | suggest correction | ||
HEMSLEY, THOMAS 2 | England, c.1836, NIM | Compass = AMST. | might be same as Thomas Helmsley. | London. | Mörzer Bruyns 1. | suggest correction |
HEN, HENDRIK | Holland, 1770-1819, MIM NIM OIM PHIM | Microscope, 1807 = ANH (1891 exhibit); Electrical Machine = University Museum, Groningen; Thermometer = LEY; Burning Glass = TEY; Solar Microscopes = Museum voor het Onderwijs, the Hague, LEY. | also made octants and telescopes. | Kalverstraat bij de R.C. Kerk de Papegaai 35, Amsterdam. | Rooseboom 1; van der Star 1; Crommelin 1; Daumas 1; USNM; G.L'E. Turner 7 & 24; Mörzer Bruyns 2. | suggest correction |
HENDER, EDMUND | England, fl.1820-47, PHIM | barometer maker. | Fore Street, Bodmin. | Bell 2. | suggest correction | |
HENDERSON | invented a surveying instrument called a hypthonite; possibly Ebenezer or William Henderson. | Soth. 7/7/78. | suggest correction | |||
HENDERSON, EBENEZER | England, 1809-79, MIM | mechanician; author; invented and constructed a three-wheel orrery before 1841; made an astronomical clock. | London. | DNB; Magazine of Science, London, 1841. | suggest correction | |
HENDERSON, THOMAS | Ireland, 1750, MIM | Sundial, slate, 1750 = Evans Coll. | Dublin. | Evans 1. | suggest correction | |
HENDERSON, WILLIAM | England, 1826, MIM | Kylephemeris, cardboard, 1826 = D.(1988). | patented Jan., 1826. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HENDRICK, BARENT | Holland, c.1590, MIM | Compass Sundials, in ivory barrels = ADL-M367, NOR; Sundial = FRY Coll. | the dial in NOR is punchmarked "B.H." | Amsterdam. | Rooseboom 1; Zinner 1; Engelmann 1; Gunther 2; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction |
HENDRICKSON, D. | Holland, 1650, MIM | Universal Ring Sundial, 1650 = D.(1981). | Wynter 1 (1981). | suggest correction | ||
HENLEY | England, c.1770, | designed an electrometer; F.R.S. | Courtanvaux; Moskowitz 107; | suggest correction | ||
HENLEY, WILLIAM THOMAS | England, fl.1844-48, PHIM | barometer and thermometer maker. | 28 Hayden Street, Minories, London. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
HENNEQUIN | France, 18th Century?, MIM | Graphometer, very large = D.(1976). | Caen. | Nachet; RSW. | suggest correction | |
HENNESSY, B.H. | England, c.1800, MIM | Sextants = Soth.12/2/74 and Christie 10/6/76; Circumferentor = Kenny sale; Comet Seeker = Bar at 2121 P Street, N.W. Washington D.C. | T.C. in octant box = NMM-S.193/59-3; the instruments are often signed just "Hennessy." | 5 Wind Street, Swansea. | Taylor 2(1155); USNM; NMM 2; RSW. | suggest correction |
HENNING, VIET BALTHASAR | Germany, 1707-62, MIM | Sundial with Perpetual Calendar = DEU. | gnomon missing; photograph in Lübke. | Nürnberg. | Zinner 1; Lübke. | suggest correction |
HENRI | France, c.1850, | "Oculiste, Opticien"; his name appears on a telescope signed "J.G. Hofmann, Paris." | rue de Rivoli, 188, Paris. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HENRICK, PETER | Germany, 1612, MIM | Astrolabe, 1612 = X. | not in Price 1 or ICA 2. | Strahlendorf. | Nachet. | suggest correction |
HENRICUS DE HOLLANDIA | surely Henri Arnault, which see. | Zinner 1; Behaim Cat.; Price 1; ICA 2; A.J. Turner 10; RSW. | suggest correction | |||
HENRION, DENIS | France, fl.1584?-1640, | pseudony for Clément Cyriaque de Mangin; author; wrote on the sector. | Rouen. | Nachet; Daumas 1. | suggest correction | |
HENRITSON, J. | England, c.1780, OIM | Microscope = D.(1975). | owner? Hewitson? | Newcastle-on-Tyne. | Moskowitz 111. | suggest correction |
HENRY 1 | England, c.1775, MIM PHIM | T.C.; made balances and gauges. | 54 Paternoster Row, London. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HENRY 2 | England, c.1830, PHIM | Barometer with clock = Soth. 12/14/89. | London. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HENRY, JOSEPH | USA, 1797-1878, PHIM | Electromagnet = USNM. | this instrument was reportedly made by Henry for Parker Cleaveland; Henry invented an electro-dynamic engine in 1830; he was the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1846-78. | Washington, D.C. | USNM. | suggest correction |
HENRY, M. | France, 1850+, OIM | T.C.; optician. | 21, Passage Delorme and Rue de Rivoli 12, Paris. | Calvert 2. | suggest correction | |
HENSHALL, WALTER | misreading for Walter Henshaw. | Clay and Court. | suggest correction | |||
HENSHAW | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | London. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
HENSHAW, JOHN | England, fl.1696-1726, MIM | apprenticed to his father, Walter Henshaw, of the Clockmakers' Company on April 18, 1689; free of the Company on April 16, 1696; took apprentices; also a watchmaker; Charles Digby took over his shop in 1726. | The Globe, East Smithfield, near the Hermitage, Wapping, London. | Taylor 1(502) and 2(67); Evans 1; Crawforth 1; J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | |
HENSHAW, WALTER | England, fl.1660-1711, MIM NIM | Universal Ring Dial = PEA; Backstaff, 1711 = Dreweatt-Neate 3/30/94, D.(1994). | apprenticed to Thomas Brown 1 in the Joiners' Company, Dec. 2. 1650; freed by Patrimony in the Weavers' Company; brother in the Clockmakers' Company, 1667, Master of the Company in 1695; took apprentices in both the Weavers' and the Clockmakers' Companies; may be two backstaves, Dreweatt-Neate made for John Lock. | at the sign of the Globe, East Smithfield, near the Hermitage, Wapping; at the sign of the Globe in the Hermitage, Morefields; both in London. | Taylor 1(319); Brewington 1; Baillie 1; Daumas 1; USNM; J.Brown 1; Crawforth 7; Robischon; Coffeen 46; ATG 3/19/94; RSW. | suggest correction |
HENTZSCHELL, JOHANN ERHARDT | Germany, 1698, MIM | Astrolabe, 1698 = KAS (ICA-3024). | Marburg. | Baillie 1; ICA 2. | suggest correction | |
HERB, W.A. | Germany, PHIM | Baroscope = DRE. | Pulsnitz. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HERBAGE | France, fl.1787-88, OIM | Telescope = POB (1787). | worked for Rochon; "Breveté d'Ingénieur", 1788. | Paris. | Daumas 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
HERBERT AND CO. | India, MIM | Augsburg-type Sundial = Soth.P-B,11/10/81. | may be dealer. | Forbes Street, Bombay. | RSW. | suggest correction |
HERBERT AND SON | England, PHIM | Apothecary Balance = Christie-SK 1/8/79. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
HERBERT, L. | MIM | Sector, wood = Soth.1/15/63. | signed on the brass joint "L. Herbert Invenit et Fecit." | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HERBERTS, A.W. | England, c.1750, PHIM | Gold Balance = Soth. 10/28/86. | see also John William Herberts. | London. | RSW. | suggest correction |
HERBERTS, JOHN WILLIAM | England, 18th Century, PHIM | Balances = Christie 10/31/67, Soth. 7/23/73, PYM sale; Money Scale = Hitchin Museum. | the name is sometimes seen as I.W. Herbertz; see also A.W. Herberts; the instrument in the PYM sale was signed just "Herbert." | London. | RSW. | suggest correction |
HERBERTZ, JOHANN PHILLIPP | Germany, 1772, PHIM | Money Balance, 1772 = DRE; Balance and Weights = Cambridge Archaelogical Museum. | the balance in the Cambridge museum is signed "Herberz." | Solingen. | Dewhirst; RSW. | suggest correction |
HERBOTH, G.F. | Germany, MIM | Table Sundial = Halberstadt Museum; Full Circle = DEU. | DEU has no sights. | Braunschweig. | Zinner 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
HERDFRITZ, JOH. PHIL. | Germany, 1757, PHIM | Balance, 1757 = Soth. 6/8/70. | perhaps a misreading for Johann Phillipp Herbertz. | Schlingen (Solingen?). | RSW. | suggest correction |
HERGET, JOHANN ADOLF | Germany, fl.1721-50, MIM | Inclinable Sundial, 1721 = KAS; Nocturnals, 1723 and 1737 = KAS; Universal Instrument, 1727 = KAS; Table Sundial, 1742 = KAS; Drawing Instruments = KAS; Circumferentor = KAS. | Kassel. | Zinner 1; Lübke; Michel 3. | suggest correction | |
HERGHAMER, HANNS | Germany, 1492, MIM | Astrolabe, vellum, 1492 = OXF (ICA-403). | Price 1; Weil 2(19); ICA 2. | suggest correction | ||
HERKENROY, NICOLAUS | 1543, MIM | Diptych Sundial, ivory, 1543 = ADL-M236. | Engelmann 1; Michel 3; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction | ||
HERKUNFT | 18th Century, OIM | Microscope = CZJ. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
HERMAN AND SIMMONS | England, c.1840, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Soth. 12/14/95. | Truro. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HERMAND | France, 18th Century, MIM | Azimuth Sundial = CNAM. | "ingénieur du Roi." | Rohr; Cons. Nat'l 1; Destombes 4. | suggest correction | |
HERMANN | Austria, 18th Century, MIM | Protractor with case = ROU-187. | Neuhaus in Vienna. | Michel 3. | suggest correction | |
HERMANN, J. | Holland?; Russiac.1716, | improved Amonton's air thermometer; author; disciple of Jacques Bernoulli. | St. Petersburg. | Goldschmidt 70; Weil 2(19). | suggest correction | |
HERMANNUS CONTRACTUS | Germany, 1013-54, | author; wrote on the astrolabe and the pillar dial; clockmaker; Michel called him "Hermann Le Boiteux." | Reichenau. | Michel 3; Gunther 1; Cousins. | suggest correction | |
HERN AND CO. | England, c.1780, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Sales Cat.(1975). | Swansea. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HERNE, JOHN 1 | England, fl.1650-78, MIM | sundial maker; author; father of John Herne 2. | London. | Taylor 1(238). | suggest correction | |
HERNE, JOHN 2 | Ireland, 1670-85, MIM | sundial maker; son of John Herne 1. | Dublin. | Taylor 1(347). | suggest correction | |
HERO | Egypt, fl.50-120, | author; book on pneumatics described hydraulic devices; invented a hodometer. | Alexandria. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HEROLDT, ADAM | Germany; Italy, fl.1616-49, MIM | Table Sundial, slate, 1615 = MADEX; Astronomical Quadrant, 1622 = P.C.; Armillary Spheres = KEN (1648), ROM (1649); Recipiangle = Soth. 3/17/38; Sector = NUR. | the quadrant is signed "Adams Heroldo Gennano 1622". | Rome. | Zinner 1; Michel 3; MADEX; Price 2; USNM; Bedini 12; RSW. | suggest correction |
HERON AND CO. | Scotland, fl.1834-36, NIM | David Heron; ship chandlers and nautical warehouse. | 128 Broomielaw, Glasgow. | Clarke et al. | suggest correction | |
HERON AND JOHNSTONE | Scotland, 1844, NIM | David Heron and Johnstone. | 212 Broomielaw, Glasgow (1844). | Bryden 3; Engelmann 1; RSW. | suggest correction | |
HERON AND MCGREGOR | Scotland, c.1836, NIM | David Heron and Duncan McGregor. | 1 William Street, Greenock. | Clarke et al. | suggest correction | |
HERON, DAVID | Scotland, fl.1815-63, NIM OIM | Telescopes = ADL-M448, FRK = RSM; Hadley's Quadrant = VNN; Octant = Town Docks Museum, Hull. | the Adler instrument is signed "D. Heron"; the one at the VNN is signed "Heron"; octant is signed "Heron Greenock." | Greenock (-1827); 128 Broomielaw (1834-36); 212 Broomielaw (1836-47); 4 Carrick Street (1849-63); all in Glasgow. | Bryden 3; Clarke et al; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction |
HERON, DAVID, AND CO. | Scotland, fl.1836-40, NIM | 212 Broomielaw, Glasgow. | Bryden 3; Clarke et al. | suggest correction | ||
HERON, JAMES 1 | Ireland, c.1800, | T.C.; retailer; signed "Jas. Heron Clock and Watch Maker in Newtown." | Newtown. | Soth. 2/25/86. | suggest correction | |
HERON, JAMES 2 | Scotland, c.1836, MIM | probably son of John Heron and brother of David Heron; clockmaker. | 1 William Street, Greenock. | Clarke et al. | suggest correction | |
HERON, WILLIAM | Scotland, | Octant, ebony and ivory = RJK; Sympiesometer = RSM. | retailer. | Greenock. | Clarke et al; RSW. | suggest correction |
HERRING, AMOS BUTTLE | England, 1782, MIM | apprenticed to Ebenezer Rust 1 of the Grocers' Company on Sept. 5, 1782. | London. | J. Brown 1. | suggest correction | |
HERSCHEL, ALEXANDER | England, fl.1774-1800?, OIM | brother of William and Caroline Herschel; made telescopes, zone clocks, etc; see William and Alexander Herschel. | Germany; Bath; Slough. | NMM 2; H.C. King 1. | suggest correction | |
HERSCHEL, SIR JOHN FREDERICK WILLIAM | England, 1792-1871, | son of Sir William Herschel; astronomer; noted for his work on the stars of the southern hemisphere; F.R.S.; he made the mirrors for his own telescopes. | Observatory House, Slough; Collingwood, Hawkhurst, Kent (1840-71). | H.C. King 1; DNB; DSB; etc. | suggest correction | |
HERSCHEL, SIR WILLIAM | Germany; England, 1738-1822, OIM | He made a wide range of fine telescopes; examples may be found many museums including ADL, KEN, NMM, RSM, DRE, VIT, OXF, Helsingfors Observatory, TEY, University Observatory of Göttingen, etc. | noted astronomer who discovered the planet Uranus; F.R.S. in 1781; musician. | Hanover; Bath; Observatory House, Slough. | Taylor 2(490); Hoskins; DNB; DSB; Maurer; Grötzsch 2; NMM 2; Drechsler 2; Sticker and Kirchvogel; G.L'E. Turner 7; Pipping 1; H.C. King 1; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction |
HERSCHEL, WILLIAM AND ALEXANDER | England, OIM | Mirrors and Eyepieces = NMM. | Alexander was William's younger brother. | Slough. | NMM 2; DSB. | suggest correction |
HERSCHEL, WILLIAM AND JOHN | England, OIM | Objective Mirrors = NMM. | Slough. | NMM 2. | suggest correction | |
HERTEL UND HORN DER ALTER | Germany, 1674, MIM | Theodolite, 1674 = KES. | Hans Georg Hertel (Augsburg) and Julius von Horn der alter (Braunschweig). | see above. | Zinner 1; Bobinger 2. | suggest correction |
HERTEL, CHRISTIAN GOTTLIEB | Germany, c.1716, OIM | made microscopes; author. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction | ||
HERTEL, HANS | Germany, 1667, MIM | Level, 1667 = DOR. | may be Hans Georg Hertel. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HERTEL, HANS GEORG | Germany, 1626-98, MIM SIM | Wall Sundial, 1659 = Braunschweig Cathedral; Graphometer, 1667 = DOR; Astronomical Compendium, 1678 = OXF; Diptych Sundial = GEL; Theodolite = P.C.(1987). | see H.G.H., J.G.H. 1, and I.G.H. 1. | Augsburg. | Zinner 1; Bobinger 2; Evans 1; Lübke; A.J. Turner 10; RSW. | suggest correction |
HERTEL, JOHANN CHRISTIAN | Germany, 1739, MIM | Horizontal Sundial, 1739 = ROU. | Zinner 1; Michel 3; Nachet. | suggest correction | ||
HERVAIS | France, fl.1818-25, MIM | made pedometers. | Paris. | Baillie 1. | suggest correction | |
HERZOG, JULIUS | Germany, 1528-89, MIM | Astrological Disk, 1579 = Helmstedt Museum. | Braunschweig. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction | |
HESELTINE, CHARLES | England, fl.1822-38, MIM OIM PHIM | Taylor spelled the name "Hezeltine." | 5 Robert Street, Bedford Row (1822-29); 5 Robert Street, Gray's Inn Lane (1830-38); London. | Taylor 2(1883); O'Mara. | suggest correction | |
HESKETT, JAMES | England, | T.C.; "Map, print & chart seller. Globes & mathematical instruments." | No. 13 Sweetings Alley, Royal Exchange, London. | Calvert 2. | suggest correction | |
HESS, KARL | Germany, MIM | Universal Ring Sundial = P.C.(1968). | Nürnberg. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HESSLER, JOHANN WENDELIN | Italy1669, MIM | Universal Ring Sundial, 1669 = Drecker Coll. = P.C. | Rome. | Zinner 1; RSW. | suggest correction | |
HETZEL | France, c.1750, MIM | Plane Table Compass with Protractor = STR. | Strasbourg. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HETZEL, CHRIST. LUDWIG | Germany, c.1700, MIM | Protractor = DRE. | Halle. | Grötzsch 2; RSW. | suggest correction | |
HEUBDER, PETRUS DE | Belgium, c.1625, MIM SIM | Circumferentor = PRA. | the instrument has a bail, and a foot for a plane table. | Antwerp. | Zinner 1; Horsky and Skopova; Czech. Inventory. | suggest correction |
HEUSCHER, JACOB | Germany, 1699, PHIM | balance maker; see Odental and Heuscher | Cologne. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HEUSTER, JACOB VON | Germany, 1662, PHIM | Balance, 1662 = Adelmann Sale 4/26/27. | signed "Jacob von Heuster Plückhoff." | Cologne. | RSW. | suggest correction |
HEVELKE, JOH. | see Johann Hevelius. | Zinner 1; Przypkowski 3. | suggest correction | |||
HEVEN, JOSHUA | Germany, 1578, MIM | Table Dial, 1578 = MUN. | Evans 1. | suggest correction | ||
HEVER, H. | Germany, c.1850, PHIM | globe maker. | Eberfeld. | Tooley. | suggest correction | |
HEWER AND LEAHY | England, NIM | Sextant = Chevau-Légers 2/28/82. | Cardiff. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HEWES, E. | USA, fl.1841-56, MIM NIM | sometimes known as E.J.Hewes or E.J.Hews. | Boston, Mass. | USNM. | suggest correction | |
HEWISSON, JOHN | England, c.1775, MIM | Mining Surveyor's Compass = Chayette 6/28/86. | 29 Market Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HEWIT, SAMUEL | England, c.1822, MIM | famous for making very accurate rules. | 123 Dale Street, Liverpool. | Taylor 2(1585); Dewhirst. | suggest correction | |
HEWITSON | England, c.1770, MIM NIM SIM | Hadley Quadrant = VNN; Surveying Compass = D.(1971). | Newcastle-upon-Tyne. | USNM; RSW. | suggest correction | |
HEWITSON, J. | England, c.1838-58, MIM OIM PHIM | Miner's Dial = Phillips 5/14/74; Dry Compass Card = NMM. | also a barometer maker. | Grey Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. | Bryden 9; Bell 2; NMM 2. | suggest correction |
HEWITSON, JOHN | England, c.1828, MIM | apprenticed to Joseph Fairey of the Grocers' Company, on May 1, 1828. | J. Brown 2. | suggest correction | ||
HEWITT AND SON | USA, fl.1850-53, MIM NIM PHIM SIM | Surveying Compasses, with Vernier = P.C., D.(1972). | Thomas Hewitt and Horatio T. Hewitt. | 180 Water Street, New York, N.Y. | Smart 1; Moskowitz 105. | suggest correction |
HEWITT, HORATIO T. | USA, fl.1850-53, MIM NIM PHIM SIM | son of Thomas Hewitt; see Hewitt and Son. | 180 Water Street, New York, N.Y. | Smart 1. | suggest correction | |
HEWITT, JOHN | England, fl.1651-81, MIM | Instrument = KEN. | calculated a pillar dial. | London. | Taylor 1(245). | suggest correction |
HEWITT, T. | England, 1654, MIM | Protractor, 1654 = NMM-DI/PR-S.7. | NMM 2; RSW. | suggest correction | ||
HEWITT, W. | England, fl.1820-33, | R.N.; designed a new surveying instrument. | London. | Taylor 2(1586). | suggest correction | |
HEWLINGS, JOSEPH | c.1794, MIM | Clay and Court. | suggest correction | |||
HEWOOD | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | ||
HEWSON, JOHN | England, fl.1699-1726, | apprenticed to John Seller 1 of the Clockmakers' Company on Nov. 5, 1683; free of the Company on July 3, 1699; took one apprentice. | London. | Taylor 1(511). | suggest correction | |
HEY, C. V.D. | Holland, c.1772, MIM | Celestial Globe = AMST. | published by Covens and Mortier and Covens, Jr., 1772; "signature" is on the meridian ring; possibly the owner. | Mörzer Bruyns 2. | suggest correction | |
HEYBECH, NIKOLAUS VON | Germany, fl.1389-1444, MIM | Astrolabe = X (ICA-2070). | Zinner states that Heybech made three instruments for Nikolaus of Cues, a torquetum, a celestial globe and an astrolabe. | Erfurt; Nürnberg. | Zinner 1; Baillie 1; ICA 2; Lunardi. | suggest correction |
HEYDEN | see Heiden. | Baillie 1. | suggest correction | |||
HEYDEN, GASPARD VAN DER | Belgium, c.1496-post-1549, MIM | made globes and other instruments for Gemma Frisius, c.1536; worked with Gerard Mercator. | Mirica; Louvain (1536). | Michel 3; A.J. Turner 10. | suggest correction | |
HEYDEN, JAKOB VON | Germany, 1628, MIM | Pair of Globes, 1628 = AMST. | see Joh. Christopher Weigel and Jacob Heyden. | Strassburg. | NMM 2; Mörzer Bruyns 1. | suggest correction |
HEYRICKE, SAMUELL | England, 1687, MIM | Cube Sundial, wood, 1687 = City of Leicester Museums. | Daniell. | suggest correction | ||
HICKETTS, JOHN | England, c.1674, | had James Mann 1 turned over to him by Thomas King 1 in the Spectaclemakers' Company in 1674. | Angel Street, London. | Robischon. | suggest correction | |
HICKMAN 1 | see Hickson. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | |||
HICKMAN 2 | mistake by the G.P.O. Directory in 1834; see John Hicks. | Morrison-Low and Burnett. | suggest correction | |||
HICKMAN, JOSEPH | England, PHIM | succeeded by Edward Derby. | London. | Calvert 2. | suggest correction | |
HICKS, ADRIAN BK. | USA, fl.1797-1807, MIM | Surveyor's Compass, wood = P.C. | 82 Wall Street (1797-1801); 132 Front Street (1805); 118 Front Street (1807); all in New York, N.Y. | USNM; Warner 12. | suggest correction | |
HICKS, G.E. | England, OIM | Telescope = STK. | 44 Southside Street, Plymouth. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HICKS, GEORGE 1 | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = X. | sometimes signed "G. Hicks." | 42 Upper North Place, Gray's Inn Lane, London. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction |
HICKS, GEORGE 2 | England, c.1811, PHIM | barometer maker. | 43 Shoe Lane, London. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
HICKS, GEORGE 3 | Ireland, fl.1824-35, MIM | 64 City Quay (1824); 68 Marrowbone Lane (1835); both in Dublin. | Morrison-Low and Burnett. | suggest correction | ||
HICKS, GEORGE 4 | England, OIM | apprenticed to Joseph Morrice, an ivory turner, in the Merchant Taylors' Company. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | ||
HICKS, J. 1 | England, c.1780-1820, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = K.and C. 12/3/75, DeLuca 8/1/87; Fortin-type Barometer, # 963 = D.(1975); Stick Barometers = Soth. 2/4/77, X. | Goodison gives the address as 98 and 10 Hatton Garden. | 8, 9, and 10 Hatton Garden, London. | O'Mara; Goodison 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
HICKS, J. 2 | Ireland, fl.1817-26, MIM | probably John Hicks, which see. | 11 Camden Street (1817-19); 13 Lower Camden Street (1820-22); 13 Peter's Place, Lower Camden Street (1823-24); 64 City Quay (1825-26); all in Dublin. | Bryden 9; Morrison-Low and Burnett. | suggest correction | |
HICKS, JAMES J. | England, fl.1874-1952, PHIM | firm was originally James Joseph Hicks until 1874. | 8 Hatton Garden, London E.C. | Middleton 1. | suggest correction | |
HICKS, JAMES JOSEPH | England, b.1829-74? yz, PHIM | bought barometers for resale under his name; the firm became James J. Hicks in 1874. | 8, 9, and 10 Hatton Garden, London. | Bell 2; Middleton 1. | suggest correction | |
HICKS, JOHN | Ireland, fl.1832-48, MIM NIM | 48 City Quay (1832-34); 18 City Quay (1834); 20 City Quay (1835-48); all in Dublin. | Morrison-Low and Burnett. | suggest correction | ||
HICKS, JOSEPH | England, fl.1814-22, MIM OIM PHIM SIM | Surveying Instrument = P.C.(1972); Alidade, wood & brass = D.(1984). | barometer maker; alidade signed "J. Hicks." | 11 Brook Street (1814-16); 17 Lambeth Walk (1817); 19 Kirby Street (1817-20); 117 Bishopsgate without (1820-22); all in London. | Taylor 2(1358); Goodison 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
HICKS, LANGSTON, AND CO. | England, fl.1822-23, MIM OIM | 94 Cheapside, London. | O'Mara. | suggest correction | ||
HICKS, THOMAS | Ireland, fl.1784-1825, MIM NIM | Mariner's Compass = NMM; Crown Compass = NMM. | 40 Poolbeg Street (1784-90); 20 Hawkins Street (1791-99); both in Dublin. | NMM 2; Morrison-Low and Burnett. | suggest correction | |
HICKSON, WILLIAM | England, c.1708, MIM | apprenticed to William Sellars of the Clockmakers' Company on June 11, 1708. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
HIDER, EDWARD WALTER | England, c.1806, | apprenticed to John Corless in the Joiners' Company, June 3, 1806. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | ||
HIEMER, CARL | 1773, MIM | Plate for Table Sundial, 1773 = Portaluppi Coll. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
HIGGINBOTTOM, WILLIAM | England, c.1722, MIM | apprenticed to William Sellars of the Clockmakers' Company on June 4, 1722. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
HIGGINS | England, c.1820, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | 16 Saffron Street, London. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
HIGGINS, THOMAS | England, c.1790, PHIM | Wheel Barometer, Thermometer and clock = SPI-Anderson 3/25/27. | London. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HIGGINSON, FRANCIS | England, c.1828, NIM | Mechanical Log = NMM-Lg.15. | invented a registering log; signed "Higginson's Log." | 38 Monkwell Street, Wood Street, London. | Taylor 2(1588); NMM 2. | suggest correction |
HIGGISON | England, MIM | Folding Rule, ivory = Soth. 3/21/75. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
HIGGS, JAMES | England, c.1718, MIM | apprenticed to Richard Glynne of the Clockmakers' Company on Jan. 20, 1718. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
HIGGS, JOHN | England, c.1727, MIM | apprenticed to John Hutton of the Clockmakers' Company on Sept. 4, 1727; may have been the clockmaker in Wallingford. | J. Brown 3; Christie-SK 5/20/88. | suggest correction | ||
HIGHMORE, NATHANIEL | see Nathaniel Heighmore. | suggest correction | ||||
HIGLEY, SAMUEL | England, 1790, MIM | apprenticed to William Spencer 1 of the Grocers' Company on April 1, 1790. | London. | J. Brown 1. | suggest correction | |
HILARI | 1556, MIM | Diptych Sundial, wood and brass, 1556 = DRE (lost). | Baillie 1; RSW. | suggest correction | ||
HILDEYARD, FATHER THOMAS | England, 1690-1746, MIM | Astronomical Clock, 1725 = Palacio Real, Madrid. | London. | "Relojes del Patrimonio Naçional", Barcelona, 1965; DNB; RSW. | suggest correction | |
HILFUNS, MARIA | not an instrument maker; "Mary help us"; this appears on an equatorial sundial dated 1479 (ADL-M288), surely by Hans Dorn. | Fox 1 & 2; Engelmann 1; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction | |||
HILL 1 | England, fl.1782-1808, MIM | descendant of Nathaniel Hill; see Watkins and Hill. | 5 Charing Cross, London. | Chaldecott 1; Daumas 1; Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
HILL 2 | Swedenc.1820, MIM | Pipping 1. | suggest correction | |||
HILL 3 | England, PHIM | Barometer = D.(1968). | Colchester. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HILL 4 | Scotland, c.1813, OIM | probably Peter Hill, which see; miocroscope maker; made jewel lenses for Sir David Brewster. | Edinburg. | Clay and Court. | suggest correction | |
HILL 5 | see Watkins and Hill. | RSW. | suggest correction | |||
HILL AND PRICE 1 | England,NIM OIM | Telescope, wood, 5-draw = Christie 5/15/73; Marine Compass = Christie-SK 7/24/86/ | Broad Quay, Bristol. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HILL, CATHERINE | England, c.1840, MIM OIM | optician. | 25 Goodmans Yard, Minories, London. | O'Mara. | suggest correction | |
HILL, G.T. | misreading for Gilbert, Tower Hill. | Belgian Inventory. | suggest correction | |||
HILL, JOHN | England, fl.1671-1712, MIM | Drawing Compass, 1680 = BM. | John Yarwell worked for him, 1671-85; made instruments for Will Fortin; Robischon said he died in 1685. | St. Paul's Churchyard, London. | Taylor 1(566); Price 3; Ward 4; Evans 1; Daumas 1; Robischon. | suggest correction |
HILL, JOSEPH | England, fl.1759-72, MIM | apprenticed to John Gilbert 1 of the Grocers' Company on Dec. 16, 1747; turned over to John Gilbert 2 in the Company on March 18, 1752; free of the Company on July 3, 1759. | Hand and Pen Court, Great Tower Hill (1759); Great Tower Hill (1760-72); both in London. | J. Brown 1. | suggest correction | |
HILL, MATHAW | England, 1658, MIM | Evans 1. | suggest correction | |||
HILL, NATHANIEL | England, fl.1708-64, MIM NIM PHIM SIM | made miniature terrestrial globes, many of them in shagreen cases with celestial gores as a lining; some are dated 1754; examples may be found at ADL, BM, PBN, KEN, PRM, NMM, Coll. of H.M. Queen Elizabeth II, New York Public Library, etc. | apprenticed to James Farmer of the Grocers' Company on March 11, 1701; free in the Merchant Taylors' Company in 1708; T.C. showed mathematical and navigating instruments, and barometers. | The Globe and Sun, in Chancery Lane, Fleet Street; opposite Serjeants Inn, Chancery Lane; both in London. | Taylor 2(363); Goodison 1; Chaldecott 1; Stevenson; NMM 2; Clay and Court; Calvert 2; Wynter and Turner; Yonge; C.N. Robinson; J. Brown 1; Crawforth 1 & 7; Wynter 1 & 2; Krogt 2; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction |
HILL, P. | England, PHIM | Barometer = D.(1989). | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
HILL, PETER | Scotland, 1778-1845, MIM OIM PHIM | Pantograph = FRK = RSM; Refracting Telescope = FRK = RSM; Stick Barometers = X, Phillips 1/26/83. | made jewel lenses; worked for Brewster. | Richmond Street (1801-03); East Richmond Street (1804-06); 7 East Richmond Street (1806-11); 9 East Richmond Street (1811-12); 6 Union Place (1813-22); 7 Union Place (1823-24); 2 Greenside Place (1825-28); 13 Abbey (1836-40); 12 Richmond Place (1845); all in Edinburgh. | Taylor 2(1589); Bryden 3; USNM; Clarke et al. | suggest correction |
HILL, S. | Scotland, c.1820, MIM | Sighting Compass = P.C.(1987). | Edinburgh. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HILL, THOMAS 1 | England, fl.1635-36, MIM | made sundials; had four seized and destroyed because of poor quality. | by the Tower, London. | Taylor 1(183); J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | |
HILL, THOMAS 2 | England, c.1734, MIM | designed an improved slide rule. | Taylor 2(272). | suggest correction | ||
HILLAR | 1556, MIM | Instrument, 1556 = DRE. | Evans 1. | suggest correction | ||
HILLEPRAND, FERDINAND | 1586, MIM | Mechanical Equatorial Sundial, 1586 = PRA. | Horsky and Skopova; Czech. Inventory; RSW. | suggest correction | ||
HILLER, GILBERT TOWER | misreading for Gilbert, Tower Hill. | Belgian Inventory. | suggest correction | |||
HILLIARD, J. | England, 19th Century, PHIM | Stick Barometer = Christie-SK 4/17/86. | London. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HILLOCK, JAMES | England, c.1850, PHIM | barometer maker or seller. | Hyde Park Corner, London. | Bell 2. | suggest correction | |
HILLS, JNO. | England, PHIM | Stick Barometer = X. | Bury. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
HILTON, JOHN | England, c.1700, | apprenticed to Thomas Tompion in the Clockmakers' Company. | Robischon. | suggest correction | ||
HILTON, THOMAS | England, c.1674, MIM | apprenticed by turnover to John Marke of the Clockmakers' Company on July 6, 1674. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
HILTUM, JOSEPH | England, c.1838, OIM | father of Richard Hiltum? | 109 Bishopsgate Within, London. | Taylor 2(2149). | suggest correction | |
HILTUM, RICHARD | England, c.1847, OIM | carried on Joseph Hiltum's business. | 109 Bishopsgate Within, London. | Taylor 2(2149). | suggest correction | |
HINCHLIFFE, G.W. | England, OIM | Telescope = D.(1973). | London. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HINDE, JOHN | England, 1767, MIM | his five sons were all instrument makers; see Roger Hinde. | London. | Baillie 1. | suggest correction | |
HINDE, ROGER | England, fl.1820-34, MIM | son of John Hinde? | 70 Noble Street, Falcon Square, London. | Taylor 2(1591); O'Mara. | suggest correction | |
HINDLEY AND SON | England, fl.?-1771, MIM OIM PHIM | Henry and Joseph Hindley. | York. | Taylor 2(186). | suggest correction | |
HINDLEY, HENRY | England, 1701-71, MIM OIM PHIM | Pyrometer = KEN; Dividing Engine = X; Telescope = KEN; Garden Sundial = Hindley Shop, CMY. | noted clockmaker. | York. | Taylor 2(186); Daumas 1; Law; Setchell 1 and 2; DNB; RSW. | suggest correction |
HINDLEY, JOSEPH | England, d.1774, MIM OIM PHIM | son of Henry Hindley; apprenticed to his father; took over the shop from 1771-74. | York. | Taylor 2(186); Setchell 1 and 2. | suggest correction | |
HINSANT | France, 1769, OIM | made telescope mirrors. | Quai de l'Horloge, Paris. | Nachet. | suggest correction | |
HINTON, WILLIAM | England; USA, c.1772, MIM NIM | advertised nautical compasses, 1772. | at "Hadley's Quadrant and Spyglass, facing the East Side of the New Coffee House", Beekman's Slip, New York, N.Y. | Bedini 1 & 8; D.J. Warner 8, 10 and 12. | suggest correction | |
HINTZMAN, JOSEPH | England, fl.1839-50, PHIM | sometimes spelled "Hitzman." | Rose Crescent, Cambridge. | Bell 2. | suggest correction | |
HIPPOLITO | 1646, OIM | telescope maker; Mariani? | Nachet. | suggest correction | ||
HIREMAN, HY W. AND JNO. H. | USA, fl.1855-56, MIM OIM PHIM | partners with Henry Ware as Ware and Hireman. | 25 East 4th Street, Cincinnati, Ohio. | Smart 1. | suggest correction | |
HIRSCH OG SAMSON | Norway, c.1800, PHIM | Stick Barometer = Folk Museum, Oslo. | Trondheim. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HIRSCH, OTT | Germany, c.1487, MIM | compass maker. | Nürnberg. | Gouk 1. | suggest correction | |
HIRSCHMANN, SENIOR | see Pistor and Hirschmann. | Weil and Baden. | suggest correction | |||
HIRSCHVOGEL, AUGUSTIN | Germany, 1503-53, MIM | Surveying Instruments in wooden box = X. | made for the city of Vienna and delivered in 1594. | Nürnberg. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction |
HITCH | England, 1797, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | London. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
HITZMAN | see Hintzman. | Bell 2. | suggest correction | |||
HOARE | England, 19th Century, MIM | Double Slide Rule = OXF. | signed "Hoare's improved double Slide Rule." | 12 Billiter Square, London. | RSW. | suggest correction |
HOBBS, JAMES | USA, 1796, MIM | Old Town, South Green Street, Baltimore, Md. | Smart 1. | suggest correction | ||
HOBBY, JONATHAN T. | USA, 1813-83, MIM NIM PHIM | Transit (post-1869) = GUR. | see Sawyer and Hobby (1840-54). | 86 Forsyth, New York (1837); 156 Water Street, New York (1840-69); Hemstead, Long Island, N.Y. (1872-73). | Smart 1; USNM. | suggest correction |
HOBCRAFT, WILLIAM 1 | England, fl.1830-47, MIM OIM | called himself "Sr." by 1846. | 18 Barbican; 38 Prince's Street, Leicester Square (1846); 14 Great Turnstile (1847); all in London. | Taylor 2(1885); O'Mara. | suggest correction | |
HOBCRAFT, WILLIAM 2 | England, c.1846, MIM OIM | son of William Hobcraft 1. | London. | Taylor 2(1885). | suggest correction | |
HOBDAY | England, PHIM | Stick Barometer = X. | Tetsworth. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
HOBDELL | England, 19th Century, PHIM | Stick Barometer = Phillips 12/12/89. | Oxford. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HOCKER, G. | USA, fl.1838-44, MIM NIM OIM PHIM | Philadelphia, Pa. | USNM. | suggest correction | ||
HODGE, ARTHUR | England, c.1822, MIM NIM | invented a perpetual log. | Twelve Bells, Bride Lane, Fleet Street, London. | Taylor 2(1591a). | suggest correction | |
HODGESON, MARMADUKE | England, c.1690, | T.C.; see Court and Hodgeson. | Calvert 2. | suggest correction | ||
HODGKIN, JOHN | England, c.1715, | free in the Joiners' Company; took apprentices, c.1715. | London. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | |
HODGKINSON, J. | England, c.1822, OIM | 24 Coppice Row, Clerkenwell, London. | Taylor 2(1592); Dewhirst. | suggest correction | ||
HODGKINSON, THOMAS | England, c.1696, MIM | advertised a new type of horizontal dial. | Sign of the Cradle, Knight Rider Street, near Doctor's Commons, London. | Taylor 1(503); Evans 1. | suggest correction | |
HOE, R.M. | c.1838, | got a patent in New York for an invention by Sherwood for finding latitude at sea. | Taylor 2(2150). | suggest correction | ||
HOEG, HARALD | Denmark, PHIM | Stick Barometer = Den Gamle By, Aarhus. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
HOELDRICK, T.N. | Germany, | misreading for "Holderich." | Augsburg. | P. and S. 11/21/1894. | suggest correction | |
HOERSCHEL | misreading for "Höschel." | RSW. | suggest correction | |||
HOESCHEL | variant for Höschel. | RSW. | suggest correction | |||
HOESEN | Germany, OIM | constructed burning glasses; succeeded by Ehrard. | Dresden. | Spargo 1. | suggest correction | |
HOEVENAER, ANTONY | Holland, fl.1654-92, MIM PHIM | Circumferentor = Geodätisches Institut, Munich, UTP; Sectors = Wray, P.C., LEY, Stedelijk Museum; Sundial = UTP. | made philosophical instruments for Burchardus de Velder, professor of physics. | Leyden. | Rooseboom 1; Zinner 1; Daumas 1; de Rijk; RSW. | suggest correction |
HOEVENAER, SIMON | Holland, c.1720, PHIM | son of Antony Hoevenaer; made physical instruments. | Leyden. | Rooseboom 1. | suggest correction | |
HOF, JACOB AUCH | Germany, c.1800, MIM | Calculating Machine, 1800 = Madex-655. | invented this machine. | Weimar. | Madex. | suggest correction |
HOFF AND HEISELY | USA, 1793-1801, MIM | Surveying Compass, 1795 = William Penn Memorial Museum, Harrisburg, Pa. | John George Hoff and Frederick Heiseley, his ex-apprentice; also made clocks. | Lancaster, Pa. | Smart 1; Bedini 1 and 17; USNM. | suggest correction |
HOFF, JOHN | USA, 1776- 1819, MIM SIM | Surveying Compasses = Chester County Historical Society, West Chester, and in a private collection. | worked with his father, John George Hoff, and took over the business; clockmaker. | Lancaster, Pa. | Smart 1; Bedini 17. | suggest correction |
HOFF, JOHN GEORGE | Germany; USA., 1740-1816, MIM | Frederick Heisely was first his apprentice and later his partner, from 1793 to 1801. | Lancaster, Pa. | Smart 1; Bedini 1, 8, and 17. | suggest correction | |
HOFFINGER, THOMAS | Instrument = Salzburg? | Evans 1. | suggest correction | |||
HOFFMANN, C.G. | Germany, fl.1772-76, PHIM | Barometers and Thermometers = DRE (1772) and (1776). | claims to have improved Huygen's barometer. | Waldheim, Saxony. | Grötzsch 2; RSW. | suggest correction |
HOFFMANN, CASPAR | Germany, c.1650, MIM | Astrolabe Clock = Soth. 5/21/73. | Augsburg. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HOFFMANN, JOHANN | Germany, 1620, MIM | cast a quadrant in 1620. | Frankfort. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction | |
HOFFMANN, SAMUEL GOTTLIEB | Germany, c.1772, OIM | microscope maker; announced one with six lenses in 1772. | Hanover. | Clay and Court; Nachet. | suggest correction | |
HOFFMEYER | see Brugger and Hoffmeyer. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |||
HOFFMEYER, J. | England, c.1840, PHIM | barometer maker. | Cambridge. | Bell 2. | suggest correction | |
HOFFVENIUS, JOHAN | Sweden, fl.1648-85, MIM | worked in Uppsala University workshop, (1648-63); held exclusive rights as instrument maker in Uppsala and Stockholm in 1663. | Uppsala and Stockholm. | Pipping 1. | suggest correction | |
HOFGREN, JOHAN | Sweden, 1778-1832, MIM OIM | globe and instrument maker to the Royal Swedish Academy of Science, 1816-32; flourished 1810-32; see J.H. 4. | Stockholm. | Pipping 1; RSW. | suggest correction | |
HOFMANN, DR. H.C. | France, OIM | Spectroscope = Soth. 4/8/74. | "construit à l'Institut d'Optique du Dr. H.C. Hofmann à Paris." | Paris. | RSW. | suggest correction |
HOFMANN, HEINRICH | Germany, 1576-1652, | designed an octant;, an example of the instrument made by Christopher Trechsler is at the ADL; author. | Jena. | Zinner 1; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction | |
HOFMANN, J.G. | France, fl.1850-62, OIM | Telescopes with micrometers = KEN, WHI, D.(1973); Philosophical Instruments = TEY; Spectroscope = TEY. | rue de Bucy, 3, Paris. | Dewhirst; USNM; G.L'E. Turner 7 & 24. | suggest correction | |
HOFMANN, JAKOB | Germany, fl.1597-1616, MIM | Polyhedral Sundials = ZUR (1597), HAY (1616), KAS (1616). | Schwabisch. | Zinner 1; Lübke; Evans 1; RSW. | suggest correction | |
HOGBEN, HENRY | England?, MIM | Set of Surveying Instruments = Pym Sale. | "Surveyor"; probably the owner. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HOGBEN, THOMAS | England, c.1730, MIM OIM | Telescopic Level = D. | "Surveyor." | Smarden. | Wynter and Turner; Bryden 9. | suggest correction |
HOGENBERG, REMIGIUS | c.1572, MIM | Humphrey Cole may have studied under him. | A.J. Turner 10. | suggest correction | ||
HOGENDOORN, J. | Holland, fl.1761-63, PHIM | sometimes spelled "Hoogendoorn." | The Hague. | Rooseboom 1. | suggest correction | |
HOGG, WILLIAM | England, c.1802, NIM OIM | Sextants = RJK, P.C.; Octant = THO; Telescope = Bearnes 11/12/86. | the sextant in the private collection was found in a Florida Keys shipwreck together with several 1802 coins. | 388 Platform, Rotherhite Wall, London. | Taylor 2(1886); USNM; Dewhirst; RSW. | suggest correction |
HOGH, EILER CHRISTIAN | Denmark; Austria, d.1773, MIM PHIM | Armillary Sphere = ADL-M9; Universal Ring Sundial = NYS = Christie 4/9/75. | Högh; worked in the Court in Vienna; the ADL instrument has "Danicus" as part of the signature and is also marked "Joseph: Fran: Ant: de Reichmann." | Copenhagen; Vienna. | Habacher; Engelmann 1; USNM; Yonge; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction |
HOGLUND, PER AUGUST | Sweden, c.1850, MIM | Surveying Instrument = STT; Pantograph = STM. | Höglund; T.C. | Norra Tullportsgatan 65, Stockholm. | Pipping 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
HOGSON, THOMAS | England, c.1699, MIM | apprenticed to Thomas Cooke 2 in the Joiners' Company in 1699. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | ||
HOHENFELDER, LUDWIG | Germany, 1596, MIM | Polyhedral Sundial, 1596 = STU. | Höhenfelder. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction | |
HOHLFIELD | Germany, 1711-71, MIM | made an odometer. | Berlin. | Beckmann. | suggest correction | |
HOHNBAUM | Germany, 1831, PHIM | Stick Barometer, 1831 = NMM-MT/BM.34. | Hanover. | NMM 2. | suggest correction | |
HOING, A. HEINRICH | Hanseatic League, fl.1598-1600, MIM | Astrolabe, 1598 = DEU-35858 (ICA 3026); Sundial, 1600 = DAN. | Höing. | Danzig. | Zinner 1; Price 1; ICA 2; RSW. | suggest correction |
HOIS | see Hoyss. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction | |||
HOJER, ERIK | Sweden, d.1774, OIM | sometimes "Högger." | Pipping 1. | suggest correction | ||
HOLBECHE, JOHN | England, fl.1720-50, MIM NIM | Backstaffs, 1738 = PYM = ADL-A171, USNM. | apprenticed to Benjamin Macy of the Clockmakers' Company on July 9, 1713; took over the shop; T.C.; the Adler instrument is marked "for Ino. Cunninghame"; the one at the USNM "for Capt. Jos. Swan"; Bedini listed him as "Holbecher." | the corner of the Hermitage Bridge, London. | Bedini 1; Crawforth 1; J. Brown 3; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction |
HOLBECK | see Holbeche. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | |||
HOLBEIN, HANS | Germany; England, 1465-1524, | designed sundials; painter and engraver. | London. | Chapuis. | suggest correction | |
HOLBORN, ROBERT | England, 1771, MIM | Compass Sundial, 1771 = Soth.-S 1/26/88. | South Cavel. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HOLBROOK AND CO. | USA, c.1840, MIM | Terrestrial Globes = D.(1968), P.C.; Tellurian = USNM. | Alfred and Dwight Holbrook. | Berea, Ohio. | Yonge; Warner 4. | suggest correction |
HOLBROOK APPARATUS MANUFACTURING CO. | USA, c.1856, MIM | Hemispheric Globe = Beinecke Rare Book Library, Yale U. | Wethersfield, Conn. | Beinecke Cat. | suggest correction | |
HOLBROOK MANUFACTURING CO. | USA, c.1856, MIM | Terrestrial Globe = P.C.(1968); Hemispheric Globe, 3" = ADL-W168. | Wethersfield, Conn. | Yonge; Warner 4; Moskowitz 2; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction | |
HOLBROOK SCHOOL APPARATUS CO. | USA, fl.1855, MIM | Terrestrial Globes = Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, Kan., Yale University, New Haven, Conn. | founded by Dwight Holbrook in 1850; the manufacturing was done by Holbrooks' Apparatus Mfg. Co. | Hartford, Conn., Chicago, Ill. and New York, N.Y. | Yonge; Warner 4. | suggest correction |
HOLBROOK, ALFRED | USA, fl.1837-85+, | partner with his brother, Dwight Holbrook, 1837-50 in manufacturing scientific equipment for schools. | Berea, Ohio. | Warner 4. | suggest correction | |
HOLBROOK, ALFRED AND DWIGHT | USA, fl.1837-50, MIM | moved to Ohio and started a new factory to make scientific school apparatus; including globes. | Berea, Ohio. | Warner 4. | suggest correction | |
HOLBROOK, CHARLES W. | USA, c.1890, MIM | Globe, Terrestrial, with case = D.(1997). | son of Dwight Holbrook. | Coffeen 56. | suggest correction | |
HOLBROOK, DWIGHT | USA, fl.1837-, MIM | Hemispheric Globe = Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, Kan. | worked with his brother, Alfred, in Berea, Ohio, 1837-50, manufacturing globes and scientific equipment for schools; moved to Connecticut in 1850, establishing the Holbrook School Apparatus Co. in Hartford, Conn.; branches in Chicago and New York; production was done in Weathersfield, Conn.; see Holbrook Apparatus Mfg. Co. for other globes. | Boston, Mass.; Berea, Ohio (1837-50); Wethersfield, Conn. (1850-57?); Windsor Locks, Conn. | Yonge; Warner 4. | suggest correction |
HOLBROOK, JOSIAH | USA, 1788-1854, MIM PHIM | studied at Yale University; science teacher; made globes and philosophical apparatus for schools, 1828-54; his sons, Alfred and Dwight started their own businesses. | Darby, Conn.; Boston, Mass.; Washington, D.C.(1847-54). | Baillie 8; Warner 4 & 6. | suggest correction | |
HOLCOMB, AMASA | USA, 1787-1875, MIM OIM PHIM | Level = Amasa Maynard Holcomb Collection (1962); Reflecting Telescope = USNM; Transit = USNM. | Southwick, Mass. | Multhauf 2; Bedini 2; Smart 1; USNM. | suggest correction | |
HOLDEN, MOSES | England, 1777-1864, MIM | astronomer; constructed a large orrery and a magic lantern. | Preston. | DNB. | suggest correction | |
HOLDER, J.N. | MIM | Equatorial Sundial = P.C. | probably J.N. Hölderich. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HOLDER, T.N. | probably a misreading for Hölderich. | Hamilton 1; Findlay Coll. | suggest correction | |||
HOLDERICH, JOHANN NORBERT | France, 1749-1806, MIM | Augsburg-type Sundials = Lüneburg Museum, OXF, DRE, HAIFA, KAS, P.C., etc. | Augsburg. | Zinner 1; Bobinger 2. | suggest correction | |
HOLDSWORTH, JOHN | owner; see Mole. | RSW. | suggest correction | |||
HOLEWEYN | Germany, 1590, MIM | Sundial, 1590 = ROM-R-7761. | Freiberg. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HOLLAND AND WITHERSPOON | England, c.1848, PHIM | barometer makers; possibly William Holland. | 24 Brook Street, London. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
HOLLAND, GABRIEL | England, PHIM | Angle Barometers, 2, = Phillips 11/16/76. | Coventry. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HOLLAND, GEORGE | England, c.1790, OIM | Telescope, astronomical = Christie 2/13/68. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
HOLLAND, JOHN | England, fl.1646-53, MIM | Oughtred's Double Horizontal Dial and Spiral Calculator, 1650 = WHI. | the dial is for the latitude of Cambridge, it is also marked "1667." | Trinity College, Cambridge; Gloucestershire. | Taylor 1(136); Bryden 16; RSW. | suggest correction |
HOLLAND, WILLIAM | England, fl.1849-60, PHIM | barometer and thermometer maker; possibly the Holland of Holland and Witherspoon. | 14 Greville Street (1849-51); 20 Greville Street (1852-59); 17 Greville Street (1860); all in London. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
HOLLANDIA, HENRICUS DE | see Henri Arnault. | A.J. Turner 10. | suggest correction | |||
HOLLBUSCH, F. VITUS | France; Germany, 1699, MIM | Vertical Sundial, Stone, 1699 = Harburg Schloss. | French monk. | France; Ottingen. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction |
HOLLIDAY, JOHN | England, c.1825, MIM | apprenticed to James Ripley of the Grocers' Company, Oct. 6, 1825. | J. Brown 2. | suggest correction | ||
HOLLINGSWORTH, ALFRED J. | England, NIM | Sextant = Christie 12/16/69. | Southampton. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HOLLIWAY, ROBERT | USA, fl.1822-23, MIM | see Chandlee and Holliway. | Baltimore, Md. | USNM. | suggest correction | |
HOLLIWELL | England, c.1800, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = D.(1989). | Derby. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HOLLIWELL BROS. | England, fl.1849-62, MIM NIM OIM | sons of William Holliwell. | Liverpool. | Brewington 1. | suggest correction | |
HOLLIWELL, WILLIAM | England, fl.1795-1849, MIM NIM OIM PHIM | Sextant = 1795 sale in Salem Mass. U.S.A. | T.C.; also a barometer maker. | London; then 13 North Side, Salthouse Dock; 14, North Side, Salthouse Dock; 5 Bromfield Street, West End Dock; 79 West End, Old Dock, all in Liverpool | Taylor 2(989); Calvert 2; Brewington 1; Bell 2; Crawforth 1. | suggest correction |
HOLLIWELL, WILLIAM, AND SON | England, 1829-49, MIM NIM OIM PHIM | Hurst Street (1829); 7 Salthouse Dock East (1835); both in Liverpool. | Taylor 2(989); Brewington 1; Bell 2; Bryden 9. | suggest correction | ||
HOLLOWAY, ROBERT | USA, fl.1819-22, MIM SIM | worked with Benjamin Chandlee 3 as Chandlee and Holloway, 1819-22, which see. | Baltimore, Md. | Smart 1; USNM. | suggest correction | |
HOLLOWAY, THOMAS | England, c.1816, MIM | apprenticed to John Simpson of the Grocers' Company on Jan.4, 1816. | J. Brown 2. | suggest correction | ||
HOLLOWAY, WILLIAM 1 | England, 1709, MIM | Gunter's Quadrant, boxwood, 1709 = Soth. 6/27/57. | All Cannings, Wiltshire. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HOLLOWAY, WILLIAM 2 | England, fl.1731-67, MIM | surely the son of William Holloway 1; apprenticed to William Carton in the Joiners' Company on Aug. 8, 1721; free in the Company, March 7, 1731. | Drapers' Court, Lothbury, London. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | |
HOLLRICH | Germany, c.1790, MIM | Heliochronometer = MAI. | Mainz. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction | |
HOLM | Sweden, c.1790, OIM | apprenticed to Henrik Holmbom. | Stockholm. | Pipping 1. | suggest correction | |
HOLM, P. | Holland, 1753, NIM | see Pieter Holm. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
HOLM, PETTER | Denmark, 1794, NIM | Marine Compass, 1794 = OMM. | surly a misreading of Pieter Holm. | Copenhagen. | RSW. | suggest correction |
HOLM, PIETER | Sweden; Holland, fl.1696-1776, MIM NIM | Tide Table, Perpetual Calendar and log-timer table on tobacco boxes = RSM, PEA, Rotterdam Maritime Museum, Reykjavik Museum (1729), Middleburg Zeeuwsch Genootschap der Wetenschappen; Backstaff, 1753 = BRP-64; Octants = AMST (1752), NMM (1753); Logs, 1729, 1754, 1765, 1774 = AMST. | 20 of these tobacco boxes were known to Dr. Crone pre-1953; the backstaff and the octants are signed "P. Holm" they were sold by Holm as he ran a navigation school; he may have been a dealer only. | Amsterdam. | Crone; Brewington 1; Price 2; NMM 2; Daumas 1; Wynter and Turner; Mörzer Bruyns 1 & 2. | suggest correction |
HOLMBOM, HENRIK | Sweden, 1752-93, | optician to the Royal Swedish Academy of Science, 1775-93. | Stockholm. | Pipping 1. | suggest correction | |
HOLMES | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | ||
HOLMES, ALFRED | England, c.1820, NIM | Sextant, coromandel wood and ivory = D.(1983). | London. | Coffeen D. | suggest correction | |
HOLMES, J.W. | USA, MIM | Theodolite = P.C. | Batavia, N.Y. | USNM. | suggest correction | |
HOLMES, JOHN 1 | England, c.1732, MIM | apprenticed to John Wilson of the Clockmakers' Company on April 3, 1732. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
HOLMES, JOHN 2 | England, c.1800?, PHIM | Stick Barometer = X. | London. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
HOLMES, JOHN WILLIAM | England, fl.1822-29, OIM | 14 Red Cross Square, Aldersgate, London. | Taylor 2(1594); O'Mara. | suggest correction | ||
HOLMES, MARY ANN | England, fl.1836-40, OIM | perhaps the widow of John William Holmes. | 14 Red Cross Square, Aldersgate, London. | Taylor 2(1594); O'Mara. | suggest correction | |
HOLMES, MATHEW | England, c.1647, MIM | apprenticed to John Blighton 1 (Bleghton?), of the Grocers' Company, c.1640; free of the Grocers' Company, May, 1647. | London. | J. Brown 1. | suggest correction | |
HOLMES, SAMUEL | England, 1767, MIM | apprenticed to Tycho Wing of the Grocers' Company on Nov.3, 1767. | London. | J. Brown 1. | suggest correction | |
HOLROYD, GEORGE | England, fl.1730-86, MIM | invented a form of reflecting quadrant. | York (c.1750); Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London. (1776). | Taylor 2(492). | suggest correction | |
HOLSKE, WILLIAM FREDERICK | Germany; USA, 1822-81, MIM | Wye Level = P.C.; Transit = P.C. | Germany (1822-54); New York, N.Y. (1854-80); St. Louis, Mo. (1881). | Smart 1; USNM. | suggest correction | |
HOLST, N.E. | Denmark, PHIM | Stick Barometer = Den Gamle By, Aarhus. | Aarhus. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HOLT, J. AND W. | England, fl.1781-1808, PHIM | Balance = OXF. | Taylor gives a date of 1725. | 51 Hay Market, St. James's, London. | Taylor 2(365); G.L'E. Turner 24; Crawforth 6. | suggest correction |
HOLT, RICHARD | England, 1827, NIM | submitted a new quadrant to the Board of Longitude, 1827. | Taylor 2(848). | suggest correction | ||
HOLTON, COB | England, c.1718, MIM | apprenticed to John Bennett 2 of the Clockmakers' Company on Sept. 1, 1718. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
HOLTUM, CHRISTOPHER | England, c.1711, MIM | member of the Clockmakers' Company. | London. | Taylor 1(561); Evans 1. | suggest correction | |
HOLTZAPFFEL | England, c.1825, MIM | Vernier Calipers = BIR; Set of Turner's Tools = D.(1974). | either Charles or John Holtzapffel, the Holtzapffel firm was famous for its lathes and lathe tools. | London. | G.L'E. Turner 24; RSW. | suggest correction |
HOLTZAPFFEL AND CO. | England, fl.1851-94, MIM | Slide Rule, George Ram-type = P.C; T-Square = D.(1971); Protractor and Rule = BIR; Sector, ivory = OXF; Screw Calipers = BIR; Gauging Calipers = BIR; Drawing Instrument Sets = Christie 7/5/71, Soth. 11/1/65; Protractors = Phillips 11/16/76, D.(1972). | "established A.D. 1794." | 64 Charing Cross, London; Manufactory at 127 Long Acre; London (1855). | O'Mara; Moskowitz 102; G.L'E. Turner 24; Delehar 2; RSW; Chaldecott 3; RGO. | suggest correction |
HOLTZAPFFEL AND DEYERLIN | England, fl.1826-51, MIM | Clement Ellipsograph = OXF; Depth Gauge = D.(1973). | Charles Holtzapffel; predecessor to Holtzapffel and Co. | 64 Charing Cross, London. | Moskowitz 107 ; G.L'E. Turner 24; RSW. | suggest correction |
HOLTZAPFFEL, CHARLES | England, 1806-47, MIM | son of John Holtzapffel; succeeded his father in 1844. | London. | Taylor 2(1157); Moskowitz 102; G.L'E. Turner 24. | suggest correction | |
HOLTZAPFFEL, JOHN | England, 1802-44, MIM | Instrument = OXF; Depth Guage = D.(1971); Lathe = Aubert Coll.(1806). | father of Charles Holtzapffel; succeeded by him in 1844. | 118 Long Acre, London. | Taylor 2(1157); Moskowitz 102. | suggest correction |
HOLTZHEY, JOHANN KONRAD | Germany, fl.1719-31, MIM | Sundial Plate and Universal Sundials = Uffenbach Coll., U. of Göttingen. | one of the universal sundials is of cardboard and is inscribed "Heliotropicum gnomonicum, Ulm, 1720"; author; designer. | Ulm. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction |
HOLTZMAN | Austria, c.1850, PHIM | Thermometer = KRA. | Vienna. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HOLWELL, JOHN | England, fl.1649-96, MIM | dialist. | east side of Spitalsfield Churchyard, near the Red Lion, over against Dorset Street, London. | Taylor 1(232). | suggest correction | |
HOLWELL, WILLIAM | see William Holliwell. | Brewington 1. | suggest correction | |||
HOLYMAN, JOHN | England, fl.1808-30, MIM NIM | apprenticed to Ebenezer Rust 1, of the Grocers' Company, on Sept. 2, 1784; free of the Grocers' Company, July 7, 1808; took an apprentice. | 5 Newmarket Street, Wapping, Lomdon. | Taylor 2(1889); J. Brown 1 & 2; Dewhirst; O'Mara. | suggest correction | |
HOLYMAN, MARTHA | England, fl.1868-72, MIM NIM | widow of William Holyman. | 27 Sydney Place, Commercial Road East, London. | O'Mara. | suggest correction | |
HOLYMAN, WILLIAM | England, 1846-67, MIM NIM | son of John Holyman? | 27 Sydney Place, Commercial Road, London. | Taylor 2(1889); Dewhirst; O'Mara. | suggest correction | |
HOLYOKE, EDWARD | USA, 1718, | Edward Holyoke was president of Harvard College and the owner of a cross-staff marked "Edward Holyoke, 1718" and signed "I.L. Kai...?, 1668." | Cambridge, Mass. | USNM; Brewington 1; RSW. | suggest correction | |
HOLYWOOD, JOHN OF | see Sacrobosco. | suggest correction | ||||
HOLZKE, WILLIAM F. | see Holske. | USNM. | suggest correction | |||
HOMANN, FR. GOTFRIED | Germany, 1737, MIM | Cube Sundial, stone, 1737 = DEU. | Weiring. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction | |
HOMANN, JOHANN BAPTISTE | Germany, 1664-1724, MIM | Celestial Globes = VIE, DRE, Weimar Landesbibliothek; Terrestrial Globes, miniature, with Armillary Spheres inside and cases with celestial gore linings = DRE, NUR, NOR, Soth. 10/22/81, and Soth. 10/22/82; etc. | author. | Nürnberg. | Zinner 1; Michel 3; Grötzsch 1 and 2; RSW. | suggest correction |
HOMBERG, GUILLAUME | Batavia; Italy; France, 1652-1715, OIM | made lenses for telescopes and microscopes. | Rome; Paris (c.1691). | Nachet. | suggest correction | |
HOMELIUS | Germany, | may have invented the diagonal scale.??? | Leipzig. | Fox 1. | suggest correction | |
HOMEN, LUPO | Portugal, fl.1517-65, MIM NIM | instrument maker and cartographer. | A.Stimson 3. | suggest correction | ||
HOMHART, J.J. | Germany, c.1700, MIM | Pillar Sundial = ZUS. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction | ||
HOMMEL, F. AND ESSER L. | Switzerland, c.1840, MIM | Circle = DRE. | Aarau. | Grötzsch 2. | suggest correction | |
HOMMEL, JOHANN | Germany, c.1556, MIM | made sundials. | Nürnberg. | Lunardi. | suggest correction | |
HOMMEMA, ROELOF HESSELS | Holland, 1791-1854, OIM | Telescope = Friesch Museum, Leeuwarden; Microscope = LEY. | Berlicum. | Rooseboom 1. | suggest correction | |
HOMMER, GASPARD | France, 1748, MIM | Mechanical Equatorial Sundial, 1748 = RSM; Equatorial Sundial = P. & S. 6/18/1894 and 11/21/1894. | see Gaspard; RSM sundial has a micrometer. | Lunéville. | Evans 1; Coffeen 12; Darius 3; RSW. | suggest correction |
HONDIUS | Holland, 1587-1638, MIM | Celestial Globe, 1615 = ROM. | Henricus Hondius or Jodocus Hondius 2. | Bedini 12. | suggest correction | |
HONDIUS, HENRICUS | Holland, 1580-1644, MIM | Celestial Globe = BASU. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction | ||
HONDIUS, HENRICUS, EN ADRIEN VEEN | Holland, 1572-1613, MIM | Terrestrial and Celestial Globes, 1613 = BASH. | Amsterdam. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HONDIUS, JODOCUS 1 | Holland, 1567-1611, MIM | Celestial Globes = KAS, NUR, D.(all 1592), NMM, BASU, P.C., AMST (all 1600), KRM, Mailand Museum (all 1601); Terrestrial Globes = D.(1600), NMM and D.(1601); Sundial on world map, 1593 = Triebold Coll.= Newberry Library, Chicago. | father of Jodocus Hondius 2; in 1600 made some globes and universal "catholic" astrolabes for the van Neck expedition. | Wacken; London (1585-92); Amsterdam (1593-1611). | Zinner 1; NMM 2; DNB; Yonge; Stevenson; RSW. Mörzer Bruyns 2. | suggest correction |
HONDIUS, JODOCUS 2 | Holland, fl.1613-40, MIM | Celestial Globes = FLO, NMM, Linz Studienbibliothek, ZUR, etc. (all 1613), Magdeburg Kulturhistor. Museum, Weimar Landesbibliothek (both 1623), Linköping Stiftsbibliothek, Stockholm Frimuraremuseet (both 1640); Terrestrial Globes = BASH, NYH (1618), P.C.; Pairs of Globe Gores, 1615 = Library of Congress, N.Y. Public Library. | N.Y. Public Library set ptinted by Giuseppe de Rossi in Rome. | Amsterdam. | Zinner 1; Price 2; NMM 2; Yonge. | suggest correction |
HONE, JOSEPH | England, fl.1664-1704, MIM | made ship builder's scale; designed and made mathematical instruments in brass and wood; "Instrument Maker to the Board (of Surveyors)"; may have succeeded Christopher and Henry Flower. | in the Bulwark, Tower Wharf near the Tower, London. | Taylor 1(348); Evans 1. | suggest correction | |
HONEMANN | Germany, c.1750, MIM | Universal Ring Sundial, silver = KEN. | also spelled "Honnemann." | Clausthal. | Zinner 6; Chaldecott 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
HONEYBONE | England, c.1850, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Soth.-S 1/25/89. | Rugby. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HONOR, WILLIAM | England, c.1724, MIM | apprenticed to John Wilson of the Clockmakers' Company on June 1, 1724. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
HOOD, J. | England, c.1810, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = D.(1975), X. | Cupar. | Goodison 1; RSW. | suggest correction | |
HOOD, JOHN | England, 1720-83?, MIM | invented "Hood's" compass theodolite. | DNB. | suggest correction | ||
HOOD, THOMAS | England, fl.1577-96, MIM NIM | designed instruments including a new sector and a cross-staff known as "Hood's Bow"; author. | Abchurch Lane; between the Sign of the Red Lion and the Elm Tree, Minories, London. | Taylor 1(48); Evans 1. | suggest correction | |
HOOFT | Holland, 15th Century, MIM | Astrolabe = Caius College, Cambridge,(ICA-197). | not in Bryden 16. | Rooseboom 1; Gunther 1 and 3; Zinner 1; Price 1; ICA 2; RSW. | suggest correction | |
HOOGENDIJK, STEVEN | Holland, 1698-1788, MIM PHIM | Pedometers = OXF, deLeth 8/21/1758. | clockmaker; made physical instruments and pyrometers. | Rotterdam. | Rooseboom 1; Evans 1; Baillie 1; Crommelin 1; Michel 3; Daumas 1; USNM; RSW. | suggest correction |
HOOGER, HIER DOOR TOT | Holland, 1786, MIM | Drawing Instrument Set, 1786 = USNM. | Rotterdam. | USNM. | suggest correction | |
HOOGHENDORP, PIETER VAN | Holland, 1572, MIM | Ring Sundial, 1572 = Gold and Silver Museum, Utrecht. | Rooseboom 1; Mörzer Bruyns 2. | suggest correction | ||
HOOK, J. | England, c.1725, MIM | Wheel-cutting Engine = OXF. | London. | Taylor 2(366). | suggest correction | |
HOOKE 1 | see Gilbert, Wright and Hooke. | suggest correction | ||||
HOOKE 2 | see Wright and Hooke. | Smart 1. | suggest correction | |||
HOOKE, BENJAMIN | England, c.1802, MIM OIM | Microscopes = Soth. 2/2/70 and 10/28/86; Steelyard = Royal Institution. | steelyard signed "B. Hooke Fleet Street London." | 159 Fleet Street, London. | Taylor 2(1158); RSW. | suggest correction |
HOOKE, JOHN | England, fl.1660-77, NIM | compass maker. | Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. | Taylor 1(402); Evans 1. | suggest correction | |
HOOKE, ROBERT | England, 1635-1702, MIM OIM PHIM | invented the wheel barometer and devised and made many new instruments; author; Curator of Experiments for the Royal Society, (1662-1702); architect; Operator to the Royal Society; etc. | Gresham College, London (1664-1702). | DNB; DSB; Taylor 1(270); Daumas 1; Wolf; Evans 1; Bell 2; Goodison 1; Middleton 1 and 4; Earle; G.L'E. Turner 24. | suggest correction | |
HOOKER AND FAIRMAN | USA, pre-1810, MIM | William Hooker and Gideon Fairman. | Newburyport, Mass. | Bedini 1; Gillingham 3. | suggest correction | |
HOOKER, WILLIAM | USA, fl.1803-46, MIM NIM | Compass card in J. Ball Patent compass = D. (1992). | T.C.; son-in-law of Edmund Blunt; see Hooker and Fairman; repaired J. Quincy's octant; dealer. | Philadelphia, Pa. (1803-04); Newburyport, Mass. (1805-11); 202 Water Street, New York, N.Y. (1811-46). | Bedini 1 & 10; Smart 1; Brewington 1; USNM; D.J. Warner 10; Coffeen Comm. | suggest correction |
HOOLY, LOUIS | England, NIM | Sextant = P.C. | name partly obliterated might be "Wooly"; see Lucas Hooly. | Liverpool. | RSW. | suggest correction |
HOOLY, LUCAS | England, NIM | Sextant = D.(1972). | see Louis Hooly. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HOOPER | see Baker and Hooper. | suggest correction | ||||
HOOPER, GEORGE | England, 1640-1727, MIM | designed a dialing scale; see G.H. 2. | Oxford; London. | Taylor 1(291); Price 3; Ward 4. | suggest correction | |
HOOPER, W. | England, c.1850, NIM | Compass, crown = Soth. 2/25/86. | Portsmouth. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HOOPER, W.W. | England, post-1856, NIM | Magnetic Compass = ADL-W187. | "School Board for London." | Bow, London E. | ADL; RSW. | suggest correction |
HOPE, PETER | England, c.1840, MIM | Slide Rule = P.C. | 64 Seel Street, Liverpool. | Delehar 4. | suggest correction | |
HOPE, THOMAS CHARLES | England, 1766-1844, | devised a type of eudiometer; example at OXF. | G.L'E. Turner 24. | suggest correction | ||
HOPKIN, LEWIS | England, ?1708-71, MIM | Sundial, 1749 = Caerlan, Tonynefail, Glamorgan. | also a clockmaker. | Wales. | Peate. | suggest correction |
HOPKINS 1 | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer =X. | London. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
HOPKINS 2 | England, c.1815, MIM | London. | Taylor 2(1360). | suggest correction | ||
HOPKINS, W.R. | USA, 1841, PHIM | patented a barometer, 1841. | Geneva, N.Y. | USNM. | suggest correction | |
HOPKINSON, FRANCIS | USA, 1737-91, | designed a mechanical log in 1783; amateur; Admiralty Judge. | Pennsylvania. | Taylor 2(849); Bedini 8. | suggest correction | |
HOPKINSON, J. | England, MIM | "Richard's" Pressure Indicator = Phillips 11/16/76. | Huddersfield. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HOPMAN | Holland, 1807, PHIM | Electrical Machine = 1807 Catalogue. | Haarlem. | Rooseboom 1. | suggest correction | |
HOPPE, E. | England, c.1780, PHIM | Stick Barometers = X (2), Soth.5/4/73; Barometer = Soth. 7/3/70. | London. | Goodison 1; RSW. | suggest correction | |
HOPPE, EBENEZER | England, fl.1801-22, MIM NIM OIM | Sextants = STR, FRK = Soth. 3/25/86, Christie 4/9/75; Double Sextant = HAR. | apprenticed to Michael Dancer in the Joiners' Company, May 7, 1793; free in the Company on March 3, 1801; took apprentices; T.C.; invented a `double' sextant in 1804; the Christie instrument is signed "Hoppé's Improved Sextant"; those in the STR and the FRK are signed "Hoppé Real Maker". | 51 Church Street, Little Minories (1801) and (1803); Edward Street, Limehouse Fields (1802) and (1809); all in London. | Taylor 2(1159); Frank; Crawforth 1 & 7; RSW. | suggest correction |
HOPPERS, PR. | Holland, 1791, MIM | Equatorial Sundial, 1791 = P.C. | Rotterdam. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HOPPERT | misreading for Hoppers. | Evans 1. | suggest correction | |||
HOPPERT, SIR G. | England, c.1710, MIM | Odometer = Evans Coll. | Norby. | Evans; RSW. | suggest correction | |
HOPTON, ARTHUR | England, fl.1588-1614, | author; designed surveying and other instruments, including a sector and staff; the later made by John Read 1 in 1610. | London. | Taylor 1(118); Evans 1. | suggest correction | |
HOPWOOD, R. | England, | Water Clocks =TIM (1682), Franklin Institute, Phiadelphia, Pa. | modern; made in Birmingham by Pearson-Page Ltd., c.1900. | (London). | Price 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
HORATT, OVE | 1799, PHIM | Lodestone, 1799 = NMM-M.15/. | NMM 2. | suggest correction | ||
HORN, J.P. | Germany, 1794, MIM SIM | Circumferentor, 1794 = Bayreuth Museum. | Plassenburg. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction | |
HORN, JULIUS VON, DER ALTERE | Germany, 1674, MIM | see Johann Georg Hertel und Julius von Horn der altere. | Braunschweig. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction | |
HORN, WILLIAM | England, c.1777, MIM | 148 Moor Street, Birmingham. | Bryden 9. | suggest correction | ||
HORNBLOW, JOHN | England, c.1797, MIM | apprenticed to William Spencer 1, of the Grocers' Company, April 6, 1797. | London. | J. Brown 1. | suggest correction | |
HORNBY, RICHARD | England, fl.1798-1849, MIM NIM | Octant = X. | Last will & testiment copy Chester. | Liverpool. | Taylor 2(991). | suggest correction |
HORNBY, RICHARD, AND SON | England, c.1851, NIM | T.C. in S.B.R. octant case = Victory Museum, Portsmouth. | Liverpool. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HORNCASTLE, SAMUEL | England, fl.1832-40, MIM | made drawing instruments, etc. | 22 St. Anne's Street, Limehouse, London. | Taylor 2(1890); O'Mara. | suggest correction | |
HORNE AND CO. | England, c.1850, PHIM | Stick Barometer = Phillips 11/16/88. | 123 121 Newgate Street, London. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HORNE AND THORNTHWAITE | England, fl.1854-86, OIM PHIM | Prism, refracting, glass = Soth. 6/23/87. | T.C.; first formed in July, 1854 out of Horne, Thornthwaite and Wood; took Wood back as a partner, 1886-93; merged with Dollond and Co. Ltd. in 1913; W.H. Thornthwaite received a prize at the Great Exhibition of London in 1857. | 121, 122 and 123 Newgate Street (1857-66); 122 and 123 Newgate Street (1867-74); 3 Holborne Viaduct, E. (1875); 416 Strand (1876-1912); all in London. | Crawforth 1 & 6; Chaldecott 3; RGO; RSW. | suggest correction |
HORNE, THORNTHWAITE AND CO. | England, 1847-87, MIM OIM PHIM | Microscopes = LEY, Soth.10/18/71 and 12/13/71. | made barometers and thermometers also; "By appointment to her Majesty the Queen"; also signed "Horne and Thornthwaite". | 122 and 123 Newgate Street, London. | Taylor 2(2196a); Dewhirst; O'Mara; Calvert 2; Goodison 1; van der Star 1. | suggest correction |
HORNE, THORNTHWAITE AND WOOD | England, fl.1846-54 and 1886-94, MIM OIM PHIM | Microscope = D.(1986). | T.C.; succeeded Edward Palmer at the first address below, c. 1846; catalogue published in 1848; firm disolved in 1854; see Horne and Thornthwaite; final break-up of the firm was in 1894. | 103 Newgate Street; 121 and 123 Newgate Street (1852); 123 Newgate Street (1853-56); 416 Strand, W.C. (1886-87); 416 Strand and 74 Cheapside (1886-93); all in London. | Taylor 2(2196a); Dewhirst; O'Mara; USNM; Quaritch 961; Calvert 2; Crawforth 1 & 6; Coffeen 12; Chaldecott 3; RGO. | suggest correction |
HORNER | Germany, c.1799, PHIM | designed a barometer. | Middleton 1 and 4. | suggest correction | ||
HORNER, CHRISTOFFER | Sweden, fl.1714-62, MIM | Hörner; instument maker to the U. of Uppsala,(1722-60); also a clockmaker. | Dalarna (1714-17); Uppsala (1722-60). | Pipping 1; Sidenbladh. | suggest correction | |
HORNER, W.G. | England, c.1834, PHIM | developed the Zoëtrope in 1834. | Bristol. | G.L'E. Turner 24. | suggest correction | |
HORROD AND BUNDOCK | England, c.1820, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Soth. 4/28/88. | Bündock. | Silver Street 2, Clerkenwell, London. | RSW. | suggest correction |
HORROD, C.W. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | see William Horrod at the same address. | 37 Laystall Street, London. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction |
HORROD, WILLIAM | England, c.1811, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = P.C.(1968),and X. | sometimes signed "W. Horrod"; see also C.W. Horrod. | 37 Laystall Street, Leather Lane, London. | Goodison 1 and 5. | suggest correction |
HORROD, WILLIAM THOMAS | England, fl.1832-34, PHIM | barometer and thermometer maker. | 1 Bakers Row, Clerkenwell, London. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
HORSEMAN, STEPHEN | England, fl.1702-24, MIM | Plotting Scale, case = OXF; Sundials = X. | apprenticed to Daniel Quare 1 in the Clockmakers' Company, 1702; free in the Company. | King's Arms, Exchange Alley, off Lombard Street, London. | Taylor 1(533), 2(69); Michel 3; Evans 1; Gunther 2; J. Brown 3; A.J. Turner 10. | suggest correction |
HORSFALL, MATTHEW | England, fl.1765-75, MIM | sand glass maker. | of the Locks, Leeds. | Loomes. | suggest correction | |
HORSPOOLE, ABEL | England, c.1673, | apprenticed to John Brown 6 of the Joiners' Company, 1660, free in the Company, 1673. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | ||
HORTON, E. | England?, MIM | Folding Rule, wood with brass slides = MAA. | has scales for ship builders. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HORTON, WILLIAM | England, c.1842, PHIM | barometer and thermometer maker. | 12 Barbican, London. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
HOSCHEL, CHRISTOF KASPAR | Germany, 1744-1829, MIM OIM PHIM | Christof Kaspar Höschel; son-in-law of Georg Friedrich Brander; was his partner from 1774 to 1783; succeeded him in 1783; see Brander and Höschel. | Augsburg. | Zinner 1; Wissner; Daumas 1; Brachner; Bobinger 2. | suggest correction | |
HOSCHEN, BOLUS | Germany, MIM | Universal Equatorial Sundial = P.C. | Höschen. | Freyberg. | RSW. | suggest correction |
HOSE, PETER | Germany, c.1700, PHIM | Burning Glass, large = DRE. | signed as "Mechanikus." | Dresden. | Grötzsch 2; RSW. | suggest correction |
HOSMER, JOHN | England, 1839, | invented a slide rule for measuring timber; surveyor. | Delehar 9. | suggest correction | ||
HOST, L' | see L'Hoste. | suggest correction | ||||
HOTCHKIN | see Hutchin. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | |||
HOUDIN FILS | France, c.1780, MIM | Astronomical Compendium, silver = Soth-P.B. 2/17/77. | Blois. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HOUGHAM, JOHN SCHERER | USA, 1821-94, MIM PHIM SIM | Burt's Solar Compasses = Elgin Coll., P.C. | advertised as mathematical and philosophical instrumnt maker; signed both instruments as "Maker." | Franklin, Indiana. | Elgin. | suggest correction |
HOUGHTON | England, PHIM | Stick Barometer = Gloucester Museum. | plates signed "Entwhistle Sculp., Bolton." | Farnworth, near Warrington. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction |
HOUGHTON, ROWLAND | USA, 1678-1744, MIM SIM | Surveyor's Compass = USNM. | this may be his "New Theodolate" patented in 1735, with a sundial on the outer ring; also listed as a wooden pump maker; may have worked with John Dabney. | north side of the Town House, Boston, Mass. | Bedini 1, 8 & 13; Smart 1; USNM. | suggest correction |
HOUGHTON, STEPHEN, AND SON | England, fl.1821-68, MIM PHIM | Coin Scales (5) = Phillips 7/28/82. | "Successors to A. Wilkinson"; Wilkinson was a balance maker. | Ormskirk; Liverpool. | Taylor 2(1161); G.L'E. Turner 24; RSW. | suggest correction |
HOULISTON, JAMES | England, fl.1839-58, OIM PHIM | barometer and thermometer maker; see Houlston. | 3 St. Albans Terrace, Kennington Road (1839); 33 New Bond Street (1843-50); 85 New Bond Street (1851-58); all in London. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
HOULSTON | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | probably James Houliston. | New Bond Street, London. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction |
HOUSEMAN | see Horseman. | Dewhirst; Michel 3. | suggest correction | |||
HOUSSET | France, OIM | Spyglass = Soth. 12/3/76. | "opticien." | Rue Neuve de Monmorency, No.3, (Paris?). | RSW. | suggest correction |
HOUSTON AND CAMERON | Scotland, c.1865, MIM NIM PHIM | Paul Cameron; firm lasted only a brief time. | Glasgow. | Clarke et al. | suggest correction | |
HOVEDEN, JOHN | England, c.1580, | author of "Practica Chilindri"; chaplin to Queen Elizabeth 1. | London. | Gunther 2. | suggest correction | |
HOVEMAN, S. | England, 1707, MIM | Plotting Scale = Christ Church, Oxford. | probably a misreading for Stephen Horseman. | Evans 1. | suggest correction | |
HOVIL, WILLIAM | England, c.1811, MIM | apprenticed to Joseph Fairey of the Grocers' Company on Feb.7, 1811. | J. Brown 2. | suggest correction | ||
HOW | see Howe. | J. Brown 1. | suggest correction | |||
HOW, JAMES | England, fl.1842-62, MIM PHIM | worked for George Knight and Sons from 1842 to 1862; purchased the business in 1862. | 2 Foster Lane, Cheapside, London. | Chaldecott 3; RGO. | suggest correction | |
HOW, SAMUEL | England, c.1735, MIM | apprenticed to James Rowley of the Clockmakers' Company on March 28, 1727; turned over to John Bickerton (may have been a member of the Clockmakers' Company); free of the Company on July 7, 1735. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
HOWARD, CHARLES | England, c.1718, MIM SIM | Surveying Instruments = KEN; Theodolite = KEN. | successor to John Howard? | Charing Cross, London. | Taylor 1(71); Clay and Court. | suggest correction |
HOWARD, G. | England, MIM SIM | Circumferenter = KEN. | Charing Cross, London. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HOWARD, JOHN 1 | England, c.1694, MIM | Circumferentors = KEN; Proportional Compass = D.(1966). | the proportional compass is signed "J. Howard." | Charing Cross, London. | Taylor 1(485); Evans 1; Michel 3; RSW. | suggest correction |
HOWARD, JOHN 2 | England, c.1727, | apprenticed to Jonathan Roberts in the Broderers' Company, June 1, 1715; free of the Company April 12, 1727; may be the same as John Howard 1. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | ||
HOWARD, RICHARD | England, fl.1715-18, MIM | Horary Quadrant, 1715 = X. | might be Richard Howd, which see; apprenticed to Daniel Delaundre, clockmaker. | London. | Taylor 2(72); Clay and Court. | suggest correction |
HOWARD, THOMAS | England, fl.1767-93, MIM NIM | Octants = OXF (1769), NYC, OXF; Backstaff, 1780 = VNN. | the VNN backstaff is marked "made for Jas. Borrowdale Feb.3, 1780." | Temple Bar (1767-72); 2 Temple Bar (1774); both in Liverpool. | Taylor 2(606); USNM; Crawforth 7; Bryden 9; RSW. | suggest correction |
HOWARD, WILLIAM | England, fl.1660-62, MIM | Horizontal Sundials = Ceres Folk Museum, Fife (1660), RSM (1662). | also called "Guglielmus Havarti." | Lindisfarne? | Somerville. | suggest correction |
HOWARTH | variant of Howorth. | Bell 2. | suggest correction | |||
HOWD, RICHARD | England, 1715, MIM | Horary Quadrant, 1715 = NMM-Q.20. | may be Richard Howard, which see. | NMM 2. | suggest correction | |
HOWE, ELIAS | USA, 1819-67, MIM | apprenticed to Ari Davis, (1837-44); inventor. | Cambridge (1837); Boston (1837-on); both in Mass. | USNM; Smart 1. | suggest correction | |
HOWE, JOHN (2) AND ROBERT | England, fl.1735-49, OIM | succeeded their father, John Howe 1; members of the Spectacle -makers' Company. | London. | Taylor 2(73); Clay and Court; Court and von Rohr 3(116 & 117). | suggest correction | |
HOWE, JOHN 1 | England, fl.1699-1733, OIM | Refracting Telescopes = KEN, NMM. | apprenticed to his father, Joseph Howe, in the Spectacle- makers' Company; admitted to the Company, by patrimony, on March 30, 1699; took apprentices; father of John 2 and Robert Howe; lived ten miles from London in 1710. | Threadneedle Street, by the Royal Exchange, London. | Taylor 1(466) and 2(73); Evans 1; Dewhirst; NMM 2; Clay and Court ; Daumas 1; Court and von Rohr 3(64); Robischon. | suggest correction |
HOWE, JOHN 2 | England, fl.1733-54?, OIM | apprenticed to his father, John Howe 1, of the Spectaclemakers' Company in 1725; free of the Company on March 29, 1733; Master of the Company, 1749-50; he and his brother, Robert, succeeded their father in 1733; partnership lasted until 1749; see John (2) and Robert Howe. | London. | Court and von Rohr 3(116), (117); Taylor 2(73). | suggest correction | |
HOWE, JOHN 3 | England, fl.1768-86, OIM | apprenticed in the Spectaclemakers' Company, 1761; free of the Company by patrimony Dec. 29, 1768; took an apprentice. | Court and von Rohr 3(183). | suggest correction | ||
HOWE, JOSEPH | England, fl.1667-1710, MIM OIM | Telescopes = KEN (1710), AMST. | father of John Howe 1; member of the Broderers' Company; member of the Spectaclemakers' Company, 1667; took apprentices in both companies; in the Livery of the Broderers' Company, 1679; Master of the Spectaclemakers' Company, 1672 and 1695. | Threadneedle Street, behind the Royal Exchange, London (1670-1695). | Taylor 1(320); Evans 1; Clay and Court; Daumas 1; J. Brown 1; Mörzer Bruyns 1; Court and von Rohr 3(16); Crawforth 6 and 7; Robischon. | suggest correction |
HOWE, ROBERT | England, fl.1733-49+, OIM | apprenticed to his father, John Howe 1, of the Spectaclemakers' Company in 1725; free of the Company in 1733; he and his brother, John Howe 2, succeeded their father in 1733; went abroad March 30, 1749. | London. | Court and von Rohr 3(117). | suggest correction | |
HOWE, WILLIAM | England, fl.1662-1703, MIM | apprenticed to John Blighton 1 of the Grocers' Company, August 23, 1654; free of the Company, Nov. 4, 1662; admitted to the Clockmakers' Company in 1667; took apprentices; sometimes spelled "How". | Tower Hill, London (1700). | J. Brown 1 and 3; Taylor 1(320); Baillie 1; Clay and Court. | suggest correction | |
HOWEL, F. | England, c.1780, OIM | Reflecting Telescopes = D., Nouveau Drouot 5/20/88. | Francis Howell ? | London. | Wynter and Turner; RSW. | suggest correction |
HOWELL, FRANCIS | England, 1732, MIM | apprenticed to Thomas Heath 1 of the Grocers' Company on July 19, 1732; see F. Howel. | London. | J. Brown 1. | suggest correction | |
HOWELL, JAMES | England, c.1719, MIM | apprenticed to Joseph Harrison of the Grocers' Company on Oct. 5, 1714; turned over to Thomas Franklin of the Stationers' Company on April 23, 1718 or 1719. | London. | J. Brown 1. | suggest correction | |
HOWELL, JAMES, AND CO. | England, | Aneroid Barometer, pocket = Christie-SK 4/17/86. | Regent Street, London. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HOWELL, WILLIAM M. | England, c.1829, | apprenticed to William Elliott 1 in the Joiners' Company on June 2, 1829. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | ||
HOWORTH, CHARLES | England, fl.1823-52, PHIM | Stick Barometers = D.(1969), D.(1988), X, Capes Dunn 6/12/90; Angle Barometers, twin-tube = OXF(2), NMM(Gabb Coll), Bolling Hall Museum, Bradford (4), Christie 4/5/95; Angle Barometers = P.B. 6/7/68, Christie-SK 4/17/86, Christie-SK 5/15/96, left-handed example = D.(pre-1964). | a modern copy of one of his stick barometers was shown at the Chelsea Fair, 1973; the 1986 Christie-SK barometer is marked "Scott Sculp"; two angle barometers stolen from Bolling Hall, Sept., 1990. | Ireland Farm, near the Industrial School; Pump Hill, Shibden; both near Halifax, Yorkshire; Halifax (1996 Christie-SK). | Goodison 1; Taylor 2(1162); Middleton 1; USNM; ATG 9/15/90; RSW. | suggest correction |
HOYAU | France, 1816, MIM | "mechanicien"; invented and made a type of slide rule made on a round, plastic box, called either "boite à calculer" or "boite d'Hoyau." | Paris. | Delehar 9. | suggest correction | |
HOYEZ | France, fl.1830-40, MIM | Mechanical Equatorial Sundial = Chayette 12/20/88 = Chayette-Calmels 7/4/89; Sundial = X. | clockmaker; Chayette-Calmels 7/4/89 gives date as c.1780. | Amiens; Cambray. | RSW. | suggest correction |
HOYEZ, J. | France, 18th Century, NIM | Marine Compasses = NMM-Caird, DIE. | marked "Poulieur" or rope-maker. | Dieppe. | NMM 2; RSW. | suggest correction |
HOYSS, LEOPOLD | Austria; Germany, 1713-97, MIM | Sundials = BAM, FIN, Ellbogen in Böhmen Museum. | born in Vienna; the dial in Ellbogen is signed "Leopold Hois." | Bamberg. | Zinner 1; Michel 3. | suggest correction |
HOYT, T.R. JR. | USA, 1831, MIM | Globe, small, on stand, 1831 = N.Y. Antique Show, March, 1965. | Golfstown, New Hampshire. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HUBE | France, c.1810, NIM | Sextant = NMM-S.114. | "Mechanicien." | Rue Basse Riche No. 6, Brest. | NMM 2. | suggest correction |
HUBE FRERES | France, c.1830, NIM | Artificial Horizon = Gersaint 7/20/96. | Hubé Frères; T.C. in box at RSM. | Rue de Siam (T.C.); rue Basse Richer No. 6; both in Brest. | RSW. | suggest correction |
HUBEE, MARY | England, fl.1830-33, OIM | 31 Crown Street, Soho, London. | Taylor 2(1891). | suggest correction | ||
HUBER | France, c.1690, MIM | Sector = ADL-M89-l. | in Michel 3 a sector is atributed to Jean Huber (c.1760) of Geneva but this may be a confusion with the Huber of Paris. the Adler instrument is signed "Huber à Paris." | Paris. | Engelmann 1; Daumas 1; Michel 3; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction |
HUBER, JEAN | Switzerland, c.1760, MIM | Sector = X. | Geneva. | Michel 3. | suggest correction | |
HUBERT | France, | possibly Huber. | Paris. | Evans 1. | suggest correction | |
HUBERT, ETIENNE, LE FILS | France, fl.1656-89, MIM | Sundial = X. | signed "E. Hubert le fils - Rouen." | Rouen. | Tardy 3. | suggest correction |
HUBIN, LE SIEUR | England; France, fl.1673-99, PHIM | enameler; pioneered in developing the barometer commercially; made barometers, thermometers, air pumps, etc.; born in England; author. | Rue St. Martin, face à la rue aux Ours, Paris. | Taylor 1(363a); Daumas 1; Middleton 1 and 2; A.J. Turner 10. | suggest correction | |
HUBRECHTSZ., HUIJGH | Holland, 1628, MIM NIM | made compasses and nautical instruments for the Dutch East India Company, 1628. | Amsterdam. | Mörzer Bruyns 2. | suggest correction | |
HUCHASON | see Hutchinson. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | |||
HUDD, JEAN | Holland, 1633-1704, OIM | sometimes spelled "Hudde"; made very small lenses for microscopes; may have also made microscopes; Seigneur de Waweren; Dewhirst says "de Hudd." | Amsterdam. | Nachet; Dewhirst; Clay and Court. | suggest correction | |
HUDDE, M. | Holland, 1633, OIM | made microscopes. | Amsterdam. | Daumas 1. | suggest correction | |
HUDDLESTON, J.S.F. | USA, fl.1841-1900, MIM NIM PHIM | Boston, Mass. | USNM. | suggest correction | ||
HUDDY, FRANCIS | England, fl.1824-58, MIM | Dukes Street, Smithfield (1842); Red Lion Street, Holborn (1856-58); both in London. | O'Mara. | suggest correction | ||
HUDSON 1 | England, fl.1700-15, MIM | made the "Copernicus", an astronomical instrument designed by William Whiston and engraved by John Senex. | Sign of the Globe, Salisbury Court, Fleet Street, London (this was also the address of John Senex). | Taylor 1(520); Daumas 1; Evans 1. | suggest correction | |
HUDSON 2 | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | London. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
HUDSON 3 | England, MIM OIM PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X; Prismatic Compass = Phillips 11/16/76; | T.C. in microscope box = Soth. 3/16/67. | Greenwich. | Goodison 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
HUDSON 4 | England, c.1858, | T.C. | No. 26 Charing Cross nearly opposite the Admiralty, London. | Crawforth 1. | suggest correction | |
HUDSON AND SON | England, c.1810, MIM OIM PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X; Orrery = NMM-P.20. | opticians; see Hudson 3; see William Hudson. | Greenwich. | Goodison 1; NMM 2. | suggest correction |
HUDSON, JOHN 1 | England, MIM | Magnetic Compass = P.C.(1969). | Workington. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HUDSON, JOHN 2 | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Ottley. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
HUDSON, JOHN 3 | England, fl.1795-1836, MIM OIM PHIM | T.C.; spectaclemaker. | 7 Orange Street, Leicester Square; No. 112 Leadenhall Street, near St. Mary Axe and No. 9 St. Martin's Court, Leicester Square; all in London. | Taylor 2(1362); Calvert 2; Crawforth 1. | suggest correction | |
HUDSON, JOHN THOMAS | England, fl.1830-38, MIM OIM PHIM | Garden Dial = D.(1971). | dial is signed "J.T. Hudson"; he also made barometers. | 17 Ryder's Court, Leicester Square; 96 (99) High Street, Marylebone; both in London. | Taylor 2(1893); Bell 2; RSW. | suggest correction |
HUDSON, SARAH | England, 1838, MIM OIM PHIM | widow of John Hudson 3? | St. Martin's Court, Leicester Square, London (1838). | Taylor 2(1362). | suggest correction | |
HUDSON, WILLIAM | Scotland; England, fl.1714-46, MIM PHIM | made orreries; see Hudson and Son. | Edinburgh; London. | Baillie 1. | suggest correction | |
HUE | France, c.1827, MIM NIM OIM SIM | made surveying instruments, sextants and microscopes; he was succeeded by M. Coppin. | Paris. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HUE-COPPIN | France, post-1827, MIM NIM OIM SIM | Coppin succeeded Hue and kept the name; Coppin was succeeded by his son, Edouard Coppin. | Paris. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HUE-COPPIN, MAISON | France, post-1827, MIM NIM OIM SIM | Edouard Coppin succeeded his father, M. Coppin, the name was changed from Hue-Coppin to Maison Hue-Coppin. | 56 rue de Turbigo, Paris 3e. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HUET DE SOURDON | France, c.1800, MIM | Generic Orrery = X. | author; orrery demonstrated all sorts of heliacal motions; off-center gilt, prolate sun; long description on paper on base. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HUET ET CIE. | France, 19th Century, OIM | Lorgnette = X. | Palais Royal, No.6, Paris. | Nachet. | suggest correction | |
HUET, LOUIS | France, 1756-1805, OIM | optician; made mirrors for navigating instruments; made the first achromatic French microscope. | Rennes (1756); Nantes (1793-1805). | Daumas 1; Nachet; RSW. | suggest correction | |
HUET, PIERRE DANIEL | France, c.1722, | suggested a new type of anemometer; meteorologist. | Middleton 4. | suggest correction | ||
HUETTE | France, fl.pre-1839-41, MIM | successor to Canivet? succeeded by Loiseau in 1841. | Quai de l'Horloge, Paris. | Nachet. | suggest correction | |
HUGE | France, 18th century, MIM | Graphometer = Chevau-Légers 2/28/82; Set-square = Christie 4/3/74. | "Hugé." | Versailles. | RSW. | suggest correction |
HUGGEFORD, COSMOS THOMAS | Italy, 1714, MIM | Pin-gnomon sundial, with case, 1714 = OXF. | Michel said 1724. | Florence. | Gunther 2; Evans 1; Michel 3; Morpurgo 1. | suggest correction |
HUGGINS, GEORGE 1 | see George (Huggins) Dollond 1. | Taylor 2(955) & (992a); Clay and Court; J. Brown 1 & 2; Court and von Rohr 3(223). | suggest correction | |||
HUGGINS, GEORGE 2 | see George (Huggins) Dollond 2. | J. Brown 2; Robischon. | suggest correction | |||
HUGGINS, J. | England, c.1830-40, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = Soth. 5/17/74, X, D.(1993). | D.(1993) barometer is signed "Huggins Colchester", rare, reverse dial. | Colchester. | Goodison 1; Ant. Hor. Summer, 1993; RSW. | suggest correction |
HUGGINS, JOHN 1 | England, c.1778, MIM | father of George (Huggins) Dollond 1; apprenticed to Peter Dollond in the Spectaclemakers' Company in 1778; free of the Grocers' Company. | London. | Robischon. | suggest correction | |
HUGGINS, JOHN 2 | England, 1812, MIM | apprenticed to George (Huggins) Dollond 1 of the Grocers' Company in 1805; free of the Company on Dec. 3, 1812; may have been son of George (Huggins) Dollond 1. | London. | J. Brown 1 & 2; Robischon. | suggest correction | |
HUGGINS, WILLIAM 1 | England, fl.1800-22, MIM OIM | Beam Compass = Larkin Sale (1800). | may be same as William Thomas Huggins, which see. | 7 Little Knightrider Street, London. | Taylor 2(1163); Dewhirst; Crawforth 7. | suggest correction |
HUGGINS, WILLIAM 2 | England, c.1844, | apprenticed to his father, George (Huggins) Dollond 2, in the Grocers' Company in 1844. | Robischon. | suggest correction | ||
HUGGINS, WILLIAM THOMAS | England, c.1793, | apprenticed to Anthony Oldiss Banks on Nov. 19, 1793, in the Joiners' Company; may be the same as William Huggins 1. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | ||
HUGHES 1 | England, fl.1820-60, NIM OIM | Octants = PEA, LIM, GEP, BAR, OMM, Milan Science Museum,P.C. Sextants = PEA, LIM, RJK, KOT; Telescope = CZO. | London. | Brewington 1; USNM; RSW. | suggest correction | |
HUGHES 2 | see Cock and Hughes. | Pym Sale. | suggest correction | |||
HUGHES 3 | Ireland, NIM | Octant, ebony and box wood = D.(1972). | Dublin. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HUGHES AND SON | England, c.1850, NIM | Mariner's Compass = MAN-163. | surely Henry Hughes and Son. | Garcia Franco 1. | suggest correction | |
HUGHES AND SONS | England, NIM | Sextant = K.and C. 10/8/75. | probably a misreading for Hughes and Son. | London. | RSW. | suggest correction |
HUGHES, ALEXANDER | England, post-1840, MIM | son of Henry Hughes. | London. | Taylor 2(1894); Moskowitz 122. | suggest correction | |
HUGHES, HENRY | England, fl.1830-40, MIM NIM OIM PHIM | Sextants = KOT, VNM, NMM, WHI; Box Compass = Snowshill Manor; Telescope = Soth. 10/15/73; Corn Balance = Soth. 10/15/73; Octant = Soth. 10/15/73; Marine Barometer = VNN, Christie-SK 6/24/88; Wheel Barometer = X. | Established a Navigation Warehouse; many of the instruments are signed "H. Hughes." | Commercial Road (1835); 120 Fenchurch Street (1840); 59 Fenchurch Street; all in London. | Taylor 2(1894); Brewington 1; USNM; Moskowitz 122; Goodison 1; J.A. Bennett 2; RSW. | suggest correction |
HUGHES, HENRY, AND SON | England, c. 1844-1940, MIM NIM OIM | wide range of instruments that may be seen in many museums and which often appear at dealers or in auction catalogues. | the "son" was Alexander Hughes; the firm continued as Henry Hughes and Son Ltd. until the middle of the 20th Century. | 59 Fenchurch Street, London. | USNM; Moskowitz 122; NMM 2; G.L'E. Turner 24; Mörzer Bruyns 1; J.A. Bennett 2; RSW. | suggest correction |
HUGHES, HENRY, AND SONS | England, c.1840, MIM NIM | Reflecting Circle = AMST. | may be misreading for Henry Hughes and Son. | London. | Mörzer Bruyns 1. | suggest correction |
HUGHES, J. | England, c.1820, NIM PHIM | Hanging Compass = NMM; Marine Compass, porcelain = Christie 10/19/90; Marine Barometer = Soth.-S 7/23/87; Barometer = DEU; Octants = NMM-S.110, Fall River Historical Society, Mass.; Sextants = SMM, VNM, BAR, Snowshill Manor, etc. | this could be either James Hughes or Joseph Hughes 2; the trade card reads "Real Manufacturer of sextants, quadrants, compasses and telescopes"; marine compass marked "Keen's Patent." | 16 Queen Street, Ratcliffe Cross; Ratcliff; both in London. | NMM 2; Calvert 2; Middleton 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
HUGHES, J.J. | misreading for J. Hughes. | Bell 2; Middleton 1. | suggest correction | |||
HUGHES, JAMES | England, fl.1817-22, NIM OIM | made sextants, octants, quadrants, compasses and telescopes. | 16 Queen Street, Ratcliff Cross, London. | Taylor 2(1363); Dewhirst. | suggest correction | |
HUGHES, JOHN | England, NIM | Octant = ADL-A54. | London. | ADL; RSW. | suggest correction | |
HUGHES, JOHN M. | USA, fl.1838-50, MIM NIM OIM PHIM | made telescopes, microscopes, meteorological and surveying instruments, thermometers, etc. | Philadelphia, Pa. | USNM. | suggest correction | |
HUGHES, JOSEPH 1 | England, c.1800, MIM OIM | father of Henry Hughes of Fenchurch Street, London. | Limehouse, London. | Taylor 2(1164); Dewhirst; Brewington 1; Moskowitz 122. | suggest correction | |
HUGHES, JOSEPH 2 | England, fl.1822-75, MIM NIM OIM PHIM | Instrument = WHI. | son of Joseph Hughes 1; successor or partner of James Hughes (1822). | 16 Queen Street, Ratcliff Cross (1835); Minories; Bickley Row, Rotherhithe and 38-40 Queen Street, Rotherhithe (1868-75); all in London. | Taylor 2(1598); Brewington 1; USNM. | suggest correction |
HUGHES, RICHARD | England, c.1815, MIM | apprenticed to John Browning 1 or 2 of the Grocers' Company on Jan. 5, 1815. | London. | J. Brown 1. | suggest correction | |
HUGHES, THOMAS 1 | England, fl.1787-97, MIM | rule maker. | 26 Duke Street (1787); Colmore Row (1797); both in Birmingham. | Bryden 9. | suggest correction | |
HUGHES, THOMAS 2 | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Oxford. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
HUGHES, WILLIAM 1 | England, 1719, MIM | apprenticed to John Gilbert 1 of the Grocers' Company on May 5, 1719. | London. | J. Brown 1. | suggest correction | |
HUGHES, WILLIAM 2 | England, 1790, NIM OIM | Octant, 1790 = NMM. | NMM 2 has no entry for William Hughes. | Limehouse, London. | Taylor 2(994). | suggest correction |
HUGUET, NICOLAUS | France, 18th Century, MIM SIM | Circumferentor = P. & S. 5/19/1896; Graphometers = P. & S. 2/28/1896, Graz Univ. Sternwarte; Butterfield-type Sundial = UTO 11/2/76. | some of the instruments are signed "Hugueth." | Paris. | Zinner 1; Evans 1. | suggest correction |
HUHN, F.A. | Germany, c.1827, NIM | see W. von Rönn und F.A. Hühn. | Schück 2. | suggest correction | ||
HUISEN, JACOB | Holland, fl.1739-92, OIM | Microscope = UTP. | sometimes spelled "Huijsen." | Utrecht. | Rooseboom 1; Daumas 1. | suggest correction |
HUISINGA, T.F. | Holland, pre-1832, OIM | telescope maker. | St. Jacobi Parochie. | Rooseboom 1. | suggest correction | |
HULETT, JOHN | England, 1630, MIM | Gunter's Quadrant, 1630 = D.(1973). | Oxford. | G.L'E. Turner 16; Wynter and Turner; Wynter 1. | suggest correction | |
HULL, HARRISON | England?, NIM | Sextant = ADL-A168. | ADL; RSW. | suggest correction | ||
HULL, J.B. | England?, c.1830, MIM | Sector = P.C. | owner? | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HULL, NATHANIEL | misreading for Nathaniel Hill. | C.N. Robinson. | suggest correction | |||
HULOT | France, pre-1780, MIM | Dividing Engine = COR. | Paris. | Courtenvaux; RSW. | suggest correction | |
HULSE | see Jacob and Hulse. | Soth. 5/2/66. | suggest correction | |||
HULSIUS, LEVINUS | Belgium; Germany, fl.1590-1606, MIM | Sector = Pommerische Kunstschrank, Berlin (1905); Planimeter = NUR. | author; instrument designer and maker. | Ghent; Nürnberg. | Zinner 1; Bezold; Weil 2(19); Lunardi. | suggest correction |
HULST VAN KEULEN, GERARD | Holland, fl.1756-1801, MIM NIM | Backstaves = AMST (1791), P.C. (1791), LEY, Northern Marine Museum, Groningen ; Cross-staves = AMST (1791), LEY (1788), Leiden Obs., P.C. (1793); Sextants = AMST, LEY, TEY, (1790); Protractor = RIJ; Octant, 1790 = TEY; Azimuth Compass = Leiden Obs.; Sundial = LEY; Reflecting Circle = LEY; Compass Card = LEY; etc. | grandson of Johannes van Keulen 3; the sextants and the octant in the AMST and the TEY are marked "Divided cum privilegio"; many of the instruments from this shop are signed "G.H.v.K.; his widow succeeded in 1801. | Amsterdam. | Mörzer Bruyns 1 & 2; G.L'E. Turner 7; Rooseboom 1; J. Bennett 2; RSW. | suggest correction |
HULST VAN KEULEN, WEDUWE GERARD | Holland, c.1801, NIM | Octant = AMST; Compass Card = AMST; Compass = AMST; Engraved Plates, brass, for printing compass roses = AMST. | the widow of Gerard Hulst van Keulen was born Anna Hendrika Calkoen; she was probably succeeded by Johannes Gerard Hulst van Keulen van de Velde; succeeded her husband in 1801; a compass plate signed "Johannes van Keulen [(3) en Zoonen] * Wed. G. Hulst van Keulen" exists. | Amsterdam. | Mörzer Bruyns 1 & 2; RSW. | suggest correction |
HULTBERG, OLOF | Sweden, fl.1708-43, PHIM | made an air pump and a hydrostatic balance for Martin Triewald. | Stockholm; Uppsala (1723). | Pipping 1. | suggest correction | |
HUMBERT AND KNIGHT | USA, fl.1836-37, PHIM | made a large electrical machine. | 14 Roosevelt Street, New York, N.Y. | Ames, "Industry of New York", Oct.-Sept. 1836-37. | suggest correction | |
HUME, JANE | England, 1836, MIM | 10 High Street, Wapping, London. | O'Mara. | suggest correction | ||
HUMPHREY | England, c.1775, PHIM | Level Gauge on a Banjo Barometer = Soth. 1/19/73; Wheel Barometer = X. | may be Thomas Humphreys. | Barnards Castle. | Goodison 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
HUMPHREYS, CHARLES | Englandfl.1846- 56, MIM | 136 Pennington, St. George Street, London. | O'Mara. | suggest correction | ||
HUMPHREYS, THOMAS | England, PHIM | see Humphrey. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | ||
HUMPHREYS, WILLIAM | England, b.1812 fl.1838-50, PHIM | made barometers and clocks. | Hartlepool. | Bell 2. | suggest correction | |
HUND, G. | England, MIM | T.C.; made or engraved rules. | Calvert 2. | suggest correction | ||
HUNDTERPFUNDIN, MARGAREDA WILHELM | Germany?, 1617, MIM | Measure, copper, 1617 = Madex-555 (P.C.). | MADEX. | suggest correction | ||
HUNNEX, JOSHUA | England, fl.1810-36, MIM | apprenticed to Ebenezer Hoppé in the Joiners' Company, March 17, 1801; free in the Company. | 6 Crown and Shears Place, Sparrow Corner (1810); 27 opposite the one mile stone, Mile End Road; Spencer Street, Goswell Street Road (1836); all in London. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | |
HUNT | Ireland, c.1815, MIM OIM PHIM | Telescope = D.(1971); Inclinable Sundial = D.; Equatorial Sundial = P.C.; Stick Barometer = X; Wheel Barometer = Soth.-S 10/19/89. | telescope is marked "Day or Night"; Thomas Hunt 2 ? | Cork. | Goodison 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
HUNT, EBENEZER | England, c.1804, | apprenticed to his father, John Hunt 2, of the Grocers' Company, on Oct. 4, 1804. | J. Brown 2. | suggest correction | ||
HUNT, GEORGE | England, PHIM | Stick Barometer = X. | Overton. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
HUNT, HARRY | England, b.1635 fl.1673-1713, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Hooke (1679); Marine Barometer = Royal Society (1695). | assistant to Robert Hooke until 1676; Operator to the Royal Society, where he succeeded Richard Shortgrave; sometimes listed as "Henry Hunt"; made meteorological instruments. | Gresham House, Broad Street, London. | Taylor 1(364); Goodison 1; Evans 1; Dewhirst 1; Daumas 1; Clay and Court. | suggest correction |
HUNT, HARVEY W. | USA, 1796-1850+, MIM NIM OIM PHIM | Surveyor's Vernier Compass = P.C. | was with Richard Patten (1823-34); see Brown and Hunt (1834-37). | 78 Wall Street (1821); 190 Water Street (1834); 27 Fulton Street (1835-37); all in New York, N.Y.; Granby Street between Gay and Exeter, 60 South Street, Baltimore, Md. (1840-42); Washington, D.C. (1846-50+). | Smart 1; USNM. | suggest correction |
HUNT, HENRY | England, c.1850, NIM | T.C. in octant case, octant signed "Crichton" (Soth. 10/18/71). | Liverpool. | Bryden 9. | suggest correction | |
HUNT, JOHN 1 | England, pre-1777, MIM | not in the Grocers' Company; father of John Hunt 2 and grand- father of Ebenezer Hunt, both in the Grocers' Company. | London. | J. Brown 1. | suggest correction | |
HUNT, JOHN 2 | England, fl.1788-1812, MIM OIM | son of John Hunt 1; apprenticed to William Spencer 1 of the Grocers' Company on May 1, 1777; free of the Company on June 5, 1788. | 6 Dog Row, Bethnal Green, London. | J. Brown 1 & 2. | suggest correction | |
HUNT, THOMAS 1 | England, c.1696, | apprenticed to Grace Wells in the Joiners' Company on July 28, 1696. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | ||
HUNT, THOMAS 2 | Ireland, fl.1792-1812, MIM OIM PHIM | Instrument = X.; Wheel Barometer = X; Marine Barometer = X. | the marine barometer is signed "T. Hunt Cork"; see Hunt. | Patrick Street, Cork. | Taylor 2(1164a); Goodison 1; Morrison-Low and Burnett. | suggest correction |
HUNT, THOMAS 3 | Ireland, fl.1820-24, MIM | Thomas Hunt, Jr.; optician; probably the son of Thomas Hunt 2. | 37 Patrick Street (1820); 65 Patrick Street (1824); both in Cork. | Morrison-Low and Burnett. | suggest correction | |
HUNT, THOMAS 4 | USA, 1799-1878, MIM | fl. 1851-1871. | 53 Fulton Street, New York, N.Y. (1853-54). | Smart 1. | suggest correction | |
HUNT, WILLIAM | England, fl.1673-98, | invented a slide rule. | Taylor 1(365). | suggest correction | ||
HUNTER | England, | see Edwards. | Cornhill, London. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
HUNTER AND SANDS | England, c.1850, OIM | Monocular Microscope = Christie. 6/7/72. | 20 Cranbourn Street, London. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HUNTER, EDWIN | Ireland?, c.1800, MIM | Mechanical Equatorial Sundial = Soth. 2/25/86. | signed "Edn. Hunter Fecit"; T.C. in the lid of the case shows "Jas. Heron clock and watchmaker in Newtown." | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HUNTER, JAMES | England, fl.1813-18, | invented the "Nautical Indicator"; may be Mr. Hunter of Edinburgh. | Leicester Street, Leicester Square, London. | Taylor 2(1364). | suggest correction | |
HUNTER, JOHN | England, | "conversant in the mathematical and clockway"; a journeyman? | London. | Bryden 9. | suggest correction | |
HUNTER, MR. | Scotland, 1817, NIM | invented or made a navigation instrument. | Edinburgh. | Taylor 2(1364). | suggest correction | |
HUNTINGTON, GURDON | USA, fl.1763-1804, MIM | Surveying Compass, wood = P.C. | also a clockmaker and a goldsmith. | Windham, Conn.(1763-89); Walpole, New Hampshire (1789-1804). | Bedini 1, 8 and 17; Smart 1. | suggest correction |
HUNTLEY, J. | England, c.1830, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = Soth.-S 5/19/88 and 5/18/89. | see John Huntly. | City Road (London?). | RSW. | suggest correction |
HUNTLEY, ROBERT | England, fl.1805-38, OIM PHIM | Marine Barometer = VNN; Lucernal Microscope = WHI; Jones type Microscope = USNM; Culpeper type Microscope = CZJ; Wheel Barometer = X; Stick Barometer = X; Level with Compass = WHI; Telescope = Soth.3/25/86. | the barometer in the VNN is signed "Huntley, 53 Holborn." | 1 Plummer's Row, City Road and 53 High Holborn (c.1817); 294 or 244 Regent Street; 118 Oxford Street (1830); all in London. | Taylor 1(1365); Dewhirst; USNM; Goodison 1; Clay and Court; RSW; J.A. Bennett 2. | suggest correction |
HUNTLY, JOHN | England, c.1825, OIM | 16 Brownlow Street, Holborn, London. | Taylor 2(1600). | suggest correction | ||
HURD, NATHANIEL | USA, 1729-77, | engraved the compass cards for surveyor's compasses by Andrew Newell and Thomas Greenough 1. | Boston, Mass. | Bedini 1 & 8; Price 2; Rudd; Warner 12. | suggest correction | |
HURLIMANN, A. | France, c.1873, MIM NIM OIM | Sextants = Dartmouth College, USA, USNM, Nouveau Drouot 10/16/88 ; Telescope, 1873 = La Rochelle 7/16/83. | succeeded Lorieux; the sextant at the Nouveau Drouot was also marked "1384." | Paris. | Calvert 2; USNM; RSW. | suggest correction |
HURLOCK, JONAS | England, c.1699, | apprenticed to John Brown 6 in the Joiners' Company, 1699. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | ||
HURST, JOSEPH | misreading for Hurt. | Taylor 2(273). | suggest correction | |||
HURT, JOSEPH | England, fl.1729-48, OIM PHIM | Telescopes = KEN, WHI, NMM; Stick Barometer = X. | apprenticed to Ralph Sterrop of the Spectaclemakers' Company on Aug. 5, 1729; free in the Company in 1736; successor of Ralph Sterrop; T.C. shows that he was also a thermometer maker; the barometer is signed "I. Hurt." | at the Sign of Archimedes and Three Golden Spectacles, Ludgate Street, London. | Goodison 1; Taylor 2(273); NMM 2; Clay and Court; Dewhirst; Crawforth 1 & 7; Court and von Rohr 3(128); Robischon. | suggest correction |
HURTER 1 | England, c.1830, MIM | Telescope, three-draw = Christie-SK 4/17/86. | London. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HURTER 2 | see also Haas and Hurter | suggest correction | ||||
HURTER AND HAAS | England, 1785-95, MIM PHIM | Balance, 1793 = X.; Barometer, 1787 = X. | London. | Taylor 2(853); G.L'E. Turner 24. | suggest correction | |
HURTER, JOHANN HEINRICH | England, fl.1750-87?, MIM PHIM | Air Pump = STT; Barometer = GEM (1786); Hygrometer = DRE; Borda Circle = GEM. | GEM are the de Suussure Coll. | London. | Taylor 2(853); Pipping 1; Goodison 1; Daumas 1; Drechsler 2; A.J. Turner 10; Middleton 1. | suggest correction |
HURTER, JOHN | England, fl.1791-93, PHIM | may be J.H. Hurter. | Marlborough Street, London. | Bell 2. | suggest correction | |
HURTIN, CHRISTIAN | USA, 1743?-1830, MIM | Surveying Compasses = P.C. (1788)( # 7), P.C. (1788)(# 8), P.C. (1811)(# 39), VCW (1794). | came from a Huguenot family of La Rochelle, France in the early 18th Century; watchmaker ; the VCW instrument is marked "No.18." | New York, N.Y.; Goshen, N.Y. (1788). | Smart 1; USNM; Rudd; RSW. | suggest correction |
HUSBANDS 1 | England, OIM | Microscope = Soth. 10/27/69; Henderson-type Hypthonite = Soth. 7/7/78. | may be Henry Husbands, see also H. Husbands; hypthonite was a surveying instrument. | Bristol. | RSW. | suggest correction |
HUSBANDS 2 | see T. Wright and Husbands. | Calvert 2. | suggest correction | |||
HUSBANDS AND CLARKE | England, fl.-1862-1870, OIM | Refracting Telescope = Soth. 12/19/60; Theodolite = P.C.(1987); Telescope = Christie-SK 11/2/95. | Denmark Street, Bristol. | USNM; RSW. | suggest correction | |
HUSBANDS AND SONS | England, | Bristol. | Soth. 11/9/70. | suggest correction | ||
HUSBANDS, H. | England, pre-1876, | see M.W. Dunscombe and Husbands. | Bristol. | Bryden 9. | suggest correction | |
HUSBANDS, H.Y. | England, c.1850, NIM OIM PHIM | optician; manufacturer of microscopes, surveying and nautical instruments; see H. Husbands and Henry Husbands. | 8 St. Augustine's Parade, corner of Denmark Street, Bristol. | Bryden 9. | suggest correction | |
HUSBANDS, HENRY | England, MIM | T.C., in the case for a telescopic level by Hyde of Bristol. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
HUSSEY, JAMES | England, c.1747, MIM | Set of Drawing Instruments = P.C. | apprenticed to John Farmer 2 in the Joiners' Company, March 1, 1747; the set of drawing instruments is signed "Hussey London." | London. | Taylor 2(496); Crawforth 7. | suggest correction |
HUSSEY, WILLIAM | England, fl.1739-97, MIM | apprenticed to John Farmer 2 in the Joiners' Company on May 8, 1739; rule maker. | London. | Crawforth 6 & 7. | suggest correction | |
HUTCHIN, HENRY | England, c.1712, MIM | apprenticed to Thomas Feilder of the Clockmakers' Company on Jan. 14, 1712. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
HUTCHINS AND HUTCHINS | USA, fl.1786-1807, MIM | Levi and Abel Hutchins; clockmakers. | Concord, New Hampshire. | Smart 1. | suggest correction | |
HUTCHINS, I. | England, 18th Century, NIM | Backstaff = PEA. | St. Catherine's, London. | Brewington 1. | suggest correction | |
HUTCHINS, LEVI | USA, 1761-1855, MIM SIM | Surveying Compass, 1804 = DATM. | apprenticed to Simon Willard; surveying instrument maker; clockmaker; see Hutchins and Hutchins. | Concord, New Hampshire. | Smart 1; DATM. | suggest correction |
HUTCHINSON 1 | England, c.1850, MIM | Capuchin Sundial, paper = CMY. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
HUTCHINSON 2 | England, fl.1847-50+, PHIM | barometer maker; watchmaker. | Church Street, Sunderland. | Bell 2. | suggest correction | |
HUTCHINSON AND SON | Scotland, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Glasgow. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
HUTCHINSON, CHARLES C. | USA, 1832-1913, MIM NIM OIM | Telescope with tripod = Bourne 3/20/84; Wye Level = D.(1993). 1/21/93; Sextant, miniature = D.(1996). Sextant, 6 inch radius, Yale (2007). | apprenticed to F.W. Lincoln 2 pre -1853; in business by 1853; partnership with Lincoln, 1858-83; succeeded him as C.C. Hutchinson, 1883-1913; T.C. | 136 Commercial Street, Boston, Mass; 152 State St Boston, Mass. | Smart 1; Brewington 1; Garcelon 33 and 34; Coffeen 55; RSW; WEBDB. | suggest correction |
HUTCHINSON, RICHARD 1 | England, 1781, MIM | apprenticed to William Spencer 1 of the Grocers' Company on July 12, 1781. | London. | J. Brown 1. | suggest correction | |
HUTCHINSON, RICHARD 2 | England, fl.1702-36, MIM | apprenticed to William Bennett of the Clockmakers' Company for eight years on June 26, 1694; free of the Company on July 6, 1702; took apprentices. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
HUTCHINSON, THOS. | England?, MIM | Sector, ivory = Christie 7/29/76. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
HUTT, RICHARD | England, c.1740, | member of the Clothmakers' Company; William Baker turned over to him on Oct. 20, 1740, but was freed in the Joiners' Company in 1748. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | ||
HUTTON, JOHN 1 | England, fl.1724-27, MIM | apprenticed to Joseph South of the Clockmakers' Company for eight years on June 4, 1716; free of the Company on Oct. 5, 1724; took apprentices. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
HUTTON, JOHN 2 | England, c.1850, NIM | Sextant, with double frame = Soth. 3/10/87. | 10 Park Lane, London. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
HUX, ELIZABETH | England, PHIM | scale and weightmaker; widow of Thomas Hux; she ran the business and took apprentices for 26 years; T.C. | Ye Three Cocks at Holborn Conduit, London. | Crawforth 7; J. Collins 1. | suggest correction | |
HUX, THOMAS | England, PHIM | scale maker; succeeded by his wife, Elizabeth Hux. | Ye Three Cocks at Holborn Conduit, London. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | |
HUYGENS, CHRISTIAAN | Holland; France, 1629-95, MIM OIM PHIM | Telescope objective Lenses = BRO(2). | author; invented the pendulum clock and a micrometer; identified polarized light; invented and supervised the construction of two planetariums made by the clockmaker Van Ceulen. | The Hague; Paris. | Michel 14; Rooseboom 1; North 2; Daumas 1; Nachet; G.L'E. Turner 24; A.J. Turner 10; Middleton 1; Darius 4. | suggest correction |
HUYGENS, CHRISTIAAN AND CONSTANTIN | Holland, 1656, OIM | made a 23-foot telescope in 1656. | Offenbacher Cat.29, 1977. | suggest correction | ||
HUYGENS, CONSTANTIN | Holland, c.1686, OIM | Object Glasses, 1686 = BM, BRO. | brother of Christiaan Huygens; lens of 123-foot focal length lens at the Royal Society in 1723. | The Hague. | Rooseboom 1; USNM; Nachet; Daumas 1; Dewhirst; A.J. Turner 10; Darius 4. | suggest correction |
HUYS | Holland, c.1800, NIM | Mariner's Compass = AMST. | signed "---t oude Kompasmakers Huys." | Mörzer Bruyns 1 & 2. | suggest correction | |
HYAMS | see Griffin and Hyams | Bell 2. | suggest correction | |||
HYDE, J. | England, c.1840, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | probably John Hyde, watch and clockmaker, fl.1835-41. | Sleaford. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction |
HYDE, J.M. | England, fl.1841-52, MIM NIM OIM | Octant = PEA; Microscope = D.(1981); Sextant = P.C.(1984); Telescopic Level = Christie-SK 4/17/86; Stick Barometer = GMM; Compound Microscope = Wellcome Institute. | level and barometer signed "Hyde Bristol"; barometer also marked "Optician." | 1 Broad Quay, Bristol. | Brewington 1; Moskowitz 122; Lockhart 1; Bryden 9; RSW. | suggest correction |
HYMAN | England, fl.1812-50, PHIM | made barometers, watches and jewelry. | Cornwall Street; Parade; Treville Street; Bedford Street; George Street; all in Plymouth. | Bell 2. | suggest correction | |
HYNES, J. | England, c.1830?, NIM OIM PHIM | Mariner's Compass = D.(1971); Wheel Barometer = X. | quadrant maker; possibly John Hynes, optician (c.1830); there is a compass signed "Hynes." | Lynn. | Goodison 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
HYRNE, HENRY | England, c.1652, | John Herne 1 sent letters to the Royal Society which were entered as having come from Henry (Harry) Hyrne. | London. | Taylor 1(238). | suggest correction | |
HYRONS, GEORGE | England, fl.1780-87, MIM | 82 Queen Street, Park, Southwark. | Taylor 2(854). | suggest correction | ||
HYVEE, ROGER | England, fl.1703-04, | designed instruments for lunar observations. | Taylor 1(539). | suggest correction |
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