Scottish Scientific Instrument-makers 1600-1900 |
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18th century Aberdeen active in Edinburgh Adie's advertisement Alexander Adie Alexander Wilson Almanack apparatus apprentices Barclay Birmingham Reference Library British Patent Brown Buird Burgess Ticket Burgh Caledonian Mercury Cameron Catalogue clock Clyde Place Corss craftsmen Dean of Guild demand dilettante customers Directory Dundee Edinburgh and Glasgow Edinburgh Extracts Edinburgh instrument-maker engineer engraved entries example figure Gardner Glasgow Journal globes Ibid Incorporation of Hammermen indication invented James Short James Watt John Miller John Ramage land-surveyor Leith listed London instrument-maker Lothian Street manufacture Marischal Street mathematical instrument-maker mathematical instruments mechanical microscope MO & Ph Muirhead Collection Natural Philosophy optical instrument-maker optician passim Paterson Princes Street professional customers provincial quadrants reflecting telescope retail Robert Roy Soc Edin Royal Scottish Museum Science scientific instrument-makers scientific instruments Scot Scotland Scottish instrument-making trade Silver Sinclar skills South Bridge specific gravity sundials Thomas Short watch makers Watt's William Twaddell workshop