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Re: Sextant manufacturers
From: Nicol�s de Hilster
Date: 2007 Oct 25, 19:21 +0200
From: Nicol�s de Hilster
Date: 2007 Oct 25, 19:21 +0200
Here are some more: US: Thos. S. Negus & Co., not sure if they also sold sextants, but they started in 1864 and went over to the followning company in 1869: T.S. & J.D. Negus (1869 - first quarter 20th century) The White in your list is probably David White & Co, Milwaukee, Wisconson Instruments from these two manufacturers can be found on my website. Dutch: L.J. Harri, seen one from first quarter 20th century at the L.J.Harri shop in Amsterdam, most probably a reseller Did you check websters database? http://historydb.adlerplanetarium.org/signatures/ Typing the words 'sextant', 'octant', 'quintant' and 'circle' and selecting search field 'instrument' resulted in the following messages: > Your search for "sextant" yielded 351 entries. > Your search for "octant" yielded 307 entries. > Your search for "quintant" yielded 9 entries. > Your search for "circle" yielded 83 entries. That should help you getting some manufacturers in your list ;-) Nicol�s www.dehilster.info Alexandre E Eremenko wrote: > I am glad that "sextant manufacturers" topic > has a large response. > I will permanently update the list. > It is now posted on > http://www.math.purdue.edu/~eremenko/accuracy.html > Let's see what will come out of it:-) > > Alex > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to NavList@fer3.com To , send email to NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
