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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 268. Chapters: Instrument-making corporations, Musical instrument makers, Scientific instrument makers, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Isaac Newton, William Crookes, Robert Hooke, Alessandro Volta, Hipparchus, Roger Bacon, Christiaan Huygens, Jean-Charles de Borda, Edmond Halley, William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, John Harrison, Ole Romer, Tycho Brahe, Christopher Wren, William Herschel, David Brewster, Sperry Corporation, Ulugh Beg, Joseph von Fraunhofer, Steinway & Sons, Regiomontanus, Bausch & Lomb, Robert J. Van de Graaff, Georg von Peuerbach, Galileo Galilei, Shen Kuo, John Tyndall, Science and inventions of Leonardo da Vinci, Su Song, Luis Walter Alvarez, Taqi al-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf, Robert FitzRoy, John Arnold, Ernst Abbe, Honeywell, C. G. Conn, Thomas Harriot, Royal Rife, David Rittenhouse, Johannes Hevelius, Robert Were Fox the Younger, Meade Instruments, Pedro Nunes, William Oughtred, Ab Ish q Ibr h m al-Zarq l, James Gregory, Robert Dunkin, Warner & Swasey Company, Friedrich Kohlrausch, Horace-Benedict de Saussure, Sacharias Jansen, Samuel Nemessanyi, Roger Cotes, PerkinElmer, F. E. Olds, Polymer Char, Bushnell Corporation, Evangelista Torricelli, E.A. Couturier, Novacam Technologies, Hans Lippershey, Alexander Wilson, Thomas Earnshaw, John Davis, L. S. Starrett Company, Bendix Corporation, Daniel Quare, EG&G, Robert W. Paul, Petrus Apianus, Thomas Cooke, George Adams, Siegfried Marcus, Brown & Sharpe, Charles Greeley Abbot, Tobias Mayer, Niccolo Zucchi, LI-COR Biosciences, Thomas Brown Jordan, Laurent Cassegrain, Edmund Gunter, Edward Samuel Ritchie, Leonard Digges, William Gascoigne, John Brashear, Jesse Ramsden, John Dollond, Christopher Clavius, Amedee Mouchez, Renold Schilke, Pierre Le Roy, Metius, Pleyel et Cie, Charles Frank, Johannes Werner, Techtron, Joseph Nagyvary, William Simms, Vincenzo Viviani, Gemma Fris...