and Celestial Globes which omitted the Constellary Configu- 

 rations." 



In 1785 M, Morris of New York City made and sold his own 

 invention of a "Nautical Protractor for the price of One Dollar." 

 In an advertisement in The Independent Journal or the General 

 Advertiser of May 25, 1785, he explained that the device was for 

 use in the construction of globular maps and Mercator charts. 

 He also made another protractor for attaching to the end of a ruler 

 for measuring distances on charts. He planned to publish a 

 treatise on the subject of his inventions. 



James Youle, a cutler and mechanician with a shop located first 

 on Fly Street and then at 64 Water Street "at the Sign of the Cross- 

 Knives and Gun," sold a large variety of cutlery and hardware 

 for gun repair. He also made surgical instruments. He died in 

 February 1786 at the age of 46 as the result of an injury to his chest 

 from a breaking grindstone while working in his shop. He was 

 survived by a widow and nine children and was succeeded in busi- 

 ness by his son John Youle. ^^ 



New Jersey 



One of the few instrument makers known to have worked in 

 New Jersey was Aaron Miller of "Elizabeth-town." He was first 

 noted in the New York newspapers in 1748 when he notified the 

 public that, in addition to clocks, he made compasses, chains for 

 surveyors, and church bells, for which he maintained his own 

 foundry. When he died in 1771 he left all his tools to a son-in- 

 law, Isaac Brokaw.^*^ 



x'\nother craftsman who is entitled to being included as an 

 instrument maker was Richard Wistar. When Casper Wistar 

 died in 1752, his son Richard succeeded him as owner of the famous 

 glass works. In addition to window glass and glassware, Richard 

 Wistar also produced such special products as retorts for use in 

 chemistry and "electerizing globes and tubes," as well as bottles 

 for Leyden jars that Benjamin Franklin had urged him to attempt 

 in the early 1750's.^^ 



^^ New York Packet, February 3, 1785, and February 27, 1786, and New York 

 Daily Advertiser, February 8, 1787. 



^^ The New York Gazette Revived in The Weekly Post-Boy, January 4, 1748. 



^'' Bridenbaugh op. cit. (footnote 16), p. 63; Frederick W. Hunter, Stiegel 

 Glass (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1914), pp. 157-161. 



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