600 mark on wts, 45 a b c egg sc mkr, 379

2714

Mordan, S & Co, 944, 946

Oetker, Dr., 2713

Orr, P & Sons, 1999

S T S see bismar mkr, Turner, Samuel Senior

Silvester & Co, 1220

Smith, A, 2714

Thornhill, 1231, 2701–2702

Turner, Samuel Senior, 568, 1030, 2936–2940

bismar patentee

Hotson, J H, 708

Hulls & Bradford, 1303

Juris, F, 705

Mahloy, C, 679

Richardson, G L, 668–669

Riess, R W, 992

Rulke, C, 708

Rys, V, 679–680

Schnechenberg, E, 704

Slotosch, M, 680

Smith, A, 2714

Suffield, S W, 1030

Weerasinghe & Banks, 704

Wertheim, P, 705

bismar retailer

Farthing, John, 1231

Perry & Co, 1359–1360

Bizer, Andreas, béranger mkr, 2440

Black, Dr Joseph, scientist, 236, 238, 564

Black, Starr & Frost

American sc retailer, 1668

pendulum sc retailer, 1668

black-leading, 614

Blackburn, Isaac

son of Blackburn, John I, 1734

successor of Blackburn, John, 1734

Blackburn, James

apprentice of Blackburn, John I, 1742

employed by Blackburn, John I?, 1742

son of Blackburn, John I, 1734

Blackburn, John I

apprentice of Moffett, Elizabeth, 1585

apprentice of Moffett, James, 1585

business alone, 1585

coin sc mkr, 248, 1398

dates, 1727

employer of Blackburn, James?, 1742

employer of Blackburn, William?, 1742

father of Blackburn, Isaac, 1734

father of Blackburn, James, 1734

master of Blackburn, James, 1742

master of Blackburn, John II, 1585

master of Blackburn, William, 1742

master of Christ's Hospital boys, 1747

member of Haberdashers Co, 1727

partner in Moffett & Blackburn, 1585

partner of Moffett, Elizabeth, 1734

partner of Vandome, Richard, 1734

successor of Moffett & Blackburn, 1734

uncle of Blackburn, William, 1742

Blackburn, John II

apprentice of Blackburn, John, 1585

succeeded by Blackburn, Isaac, 1734

Blackburn, William

apprentice of Blackburn, John I, 1742

employed by Blackburn, John I?, 1742

nephew of Blackburn, John I, 1742

Blackburn mark, 1957

Blackhart, J W, patentee, 668, 671

Blacklock, C W & Hynes, M, patentee, 565–566, 622

Blackman, Solomon

coin sc mkr, 1735

dates, 1734–1735

master of Sawgood, John, 1735

master of Woodage, George Cave, 1735

sc mkr, 3086–3087

succeeded by Badcock, William Geagle, 1734–1735

Blacksmith's Co, wanted Sommers, Joseph II as member, 1742

Blacksmith's Livery Co

coat of arms, 1355–1356, 1381

grants, 1740, 1747

Guild, 16, 208–210, 239, 248, 1069–1074, 1140, 1355, 1388, 1395

members, 1583, 1724

records, 248

records missing, 1381

blade, def, 171, 175

Blades, John

same address as Blades, Tristram, 1730

sc mkr, 1730

Blades, Tristram

apprentice of Goodman, John, 1729

apprentice of Gray, Francis, 1730

coin sc mkr, 1730

same address as Blades, John, 1730

blan pain bread, 1052

blancke weights, wts for least current wt, 1010

Blattner, Jacob

advert, 2552

assay bal, 1976

dates, 1976

sc mkr, 2552

scientific instrument mkr, 1976

succeeded by Blattner & Adams, 1976

Blattner & Adams, successors of Blattner, Jacob, 1976

Blauvelt, Jay, & Blauven, coin operated scale, 2426

Bleuler, John

dates, 1727

grain sc mkr, 1727

scientific instrument mkr, 1727

Blews, W & Sons, design registration, 1086

Blews, William

ccd mkr, 1508

dates, 1508

wts mkr, 1508

Blews, William & Sons, wts mkr, 1086

Blombach, C, C-spring mkr, 1874

Blondeau, Pierre, machinery inventor, 461

blowpipe bal, 2623–2627

description, 2624–2625

Göttleib, Kern & Sohn, mkr, 2624–2625

Göttling, J F A, 2623

Griffin, J & Son, agent, 2625

how to recognize, 2627

Letcher & Sons, mkr, 2625

Lingke, William Friedreich, mkr, 2624

Newton, E T, mkr, 2625

Plattner, Freiberg apparatus mkr, 2625–2626

Plattner, Karl Friedreich, mkr, 2624

Pxii Co, mkr, 2625

set, 2627

supplier

Bullock & Crenshaw, 2627

Denver Fire Clay Co, 2627

Eimer & Amend, 2627

Henry Heil Chemical Co., 2627

John Taylor & Co., 2627

Justinian Caire, 2627

Mine Smelter & Supply Co, 2627

"Blowpipe-Set Balances" (article by Shannon, Shannon & Burchard), 2623–2627

Blumbach, F, Russian Central W & M Dept, 2078–2082

Board of Trade, 23, 67, 74, 85, 90, 92, 116, 486, 543, 633–634, 734–735, 2209–2210, 2220–2221, 2438, 2801

diamond mark, 1218

examination, 1423–1425

Model Regulations, 1424, 2031

notice, 2220

packaged goods regs, 1188

Parallel W & M Regs (1908), 1090

registered design system, 1218

regulations for iron wts, 614–616

Report 1882, 24

stamping wts underneath, 2031

Standards Department, 1128, 1187, 2076–2083

successor of Exchequer, dates, 2076

system of numbers for W & M authorities, 1977

Trade mark system, 1218

Board of Trade Notices

1905, 808, 2209

1913, 1835

comment on Union sc, 1835–1838

1914, 2209

1927, 2209

Board of Trade Regs

1826, 584, 616

1864, 614, 634

1878, 584, 587, 614, 734–735, 1835

1889, 22, 43–44, 85, 386, 1459, 1835

1890, 584, 614, 616, 636, 640, 1839

1895, 115, 118

1897, 115, 614

1907, 67, 85, 386, 614–616, 634–636, 713, 1090–1094, 1158, 1424, 1647, 1835, 1838

Board of Trade Report

1872, 1358–1359

1882, 24, 90, 1977

Board of Trade standards, 90

boar's head

mark (Bradford), 1957

mark on wts, 46

boars heads, in shield (Grimsby mark), 1977

bob-up sc, 693

Bodmer, R, yarn bal patentee, 1176

Boe-Paupier à Paris, C-spring mkr, 1874

Böelle, à St Christoph

C-spring mkr, 1865, 1874

date, 1876

Böelle, M

C-spring mkr, 432, 435, 1874

dates, 1876

Böelle & Breard, C-spring mkr, 1874

Bohmer (author), 114

boîts de changeur, 2516

Boker, Henry, C-spring mkr, 435, 1874

Boker, Henry & Co, C-spring mkr, 435, 1874

Bondeli, Johann Emanuel

platform sc inventor, 721

weighbridge mkr, 721

Bonneville, H A, patent agent, 455

Boogaard (biography), 2325

Boogaard & Doniger's "French Patent Postals" (article), 1535–1537

Boogaard's

"1001 Variations" (article), 291–298

"Authenticity" (article), 683–691

death, 2086

"Drugstore Scales" (article), 477–478

"Fancy Postal Scales" (article), 662–663

"Indian Weights" (article), 2323–2325

"Rare Wilkinson balance" (article), 627–629

"Trip to Malta" (article), 864–868

Troy/avoirdupois nesting wts (query), 1358–1359

book, useful

Abell's Skilful Housewife's Book (1846), 1251

Abridged British Patent Specifications 1840-1899, 1839

Act of Common Council of City of London (1617), 24

Agricola's De Re Metallica (1556), 665

Airy's Papers relating to the Restoration of the Standards of W & M (1841), 1961

Airy's Weighing Machines (1892), 134

Alberti's Mass und Gewicht (1957), 332

Alexander's Report of the Standards of W & M for the State of Maryland (1845), 1140, 1858

Alexander's Universal Dictionary of W & M (1867), 2319

Alphandèry's Dictionnaire des Inventeurs Français (1962), 2172

American Antiquarian Society's Diaries of John Hull Mintmaster & Treasurer of Colony Massachusetts (1857), 749

American Weigh (1984), 717, 2433

Anderson et al's Handlist of Scientific Instrument-makers Trade Catalogues 1600-1914 (1990), 1846

Andrews' Colonial Period of American History (1934), 1858

Aquinas' Summa Theologiae, Secunda Secundae, 2219

Arbuthnot's Tables of Ancient Coins (1727), 2093

Arnould & Massing's Splendours of Flanders (1993), 1998

Ascham's Toxophilus (1545), 870

Avery's

Glossary of Terms used in the Sc Trade

1912, 2092

1950, 169

Glossary of Terms used in the Sc Trade, 2nd edition (1964), 2156

Bache's Salter Story of a Family Firm (1960), 187, 545

Badcock's Touchstone for Gold & Silver Wares (1677), 1785

Balog's Ummayad Abbasid & Tulunid Glass Wts (1976), 310

Banwell's Machine Shop Practice (1940), 2525–2529

Barker's Pictorial History of American Scales 1850-1950, 2375, 2390, 2525–2529

Barry's Errors in Practicle Measurement in Science, Engineering, & Technology (1978), 2268

Beckert's Care & Use of Analytical Balances, 2259

Becket's Use of the Hydrostatical Balance (1775), 277

Beeson's Clockmaking in Oxfordshire (1989), 2388, 2390

Benjamin's Sciences & Sensibility: Gender & Scientific Enquiry 1780-1945, 2012

Berning's Scales, A Collector's Guide (1999), 2392, 2433, 2647

Bernstein's

Die Milch (1904), 2277, 2279

Erinnerungen an das elterliche Haus (1913), 2275, 2279

Naturwissenschaftliche Volksbuecher (1899), 1949

Von 1850 bis 1875 Kindheit und Jugendjahre (1926), 1955

Zum hundertjahrigen Geburtstag Eures Grossvaters A Bernstein (n.d.), 1955, 2275, 2279

Bernstein's Die Electrische Beleuchtung (1880), 2276, 2279

Berriman's Historical Metrology (1953), 2024, 2093

Bibliography of Weighing Instruments by Soslau, Judy & Eric, ISASC (1995), 2091

Biètry's Dictionary of Weighing Terms (1983), 2156, 2190

Biggs'

Antique Weights, The Nineteenth Century (1998), 2243, 2252

apothecary Weights An Outline Catalogue (1994), 2056, 2112

Bullion Weights (1995), 2256, 2445

English Weights (1992), 1788, 1998

Verification Marks on Weights (1996), 2112, 2331

Biographic Index of American Science (Elliot; 1979), 2091

Board of Trade Notices Annotated (1913), 1835

Board of Trade Regulations (1907), 1838

Boaz's Robert Boyle & 17th Century Chemistry (ND), 2735

Bohmer's Die Goldwaage in der Marker (1954), 114

Bonner's New York The World's Metropolis (1924), 2553

Borzone's

I Pesi Monetari di Monete Italiane (1988), 2361

I Pesi Monetari di Monete non Italiane (1988), 2351, 2357, 2361, 2387

Brabner's Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales (c1892), 2927

Bradford & Knopf's Of Plymouth Plantation (1970), 1140, 1858

Brander's Beschreibung einer neuen hydrostatischen Waage (1771), 610

Brauer's Construction of the Balance (1909), 3–6, 134, 187, 205, 728, 1815, 1906, 2053, 2092, 2292, 2322, 2384, 2487, 2597, 2604, 2735

Braunfels & Schnitzler's Karl der Grosse (1965), 1997

Brequin Col de's Reponse sur la nouvelle bal placee par Magelhaens, 610

British Almanack (1871), 353

Broadbent's Avery Business (1949), 728, 1580, 1707

Bryant's The Age of Elegance 1812-1822 (1958), 2735

Bryden's Scottish Scientific Instrument-makers (1972), 1309

Buchanan's Tables for Converting the W & M hitherto in use in GB into those of the Imperial Standards (1829), 2072

Bud & Warner's Instruments of Science: An Historical Encyclopedia (1998), 2267–2268

Bueschel's, Collector's Guide to Vintage Coin Machines (1995), 2433

Bueschel's Big Head Lollipop Scales (1994), 2084, 2432, 2436

Calendar of Patent Rolls Henry V 1416-1422, 954

Calendar of Patent Rolls Henry VI 1422-1429, 954

Calendar of State Papers Domestic Series Charles I 1633-34 (1863), 1015

Calendar of State Papers Domestic Series Commonwealth 1650-51 (1877), 1015

Campbell's London Tradesman (1747), 808

Cantu & Settle's Antique Instruments at Museum of History of Science Florence, 610

Carysfort Report (1758), 390, 582

Chaldecott's Studies in the History of Scientific Instruments (1989), 2248

Challinor's John Whitehurst (1976), 1083

Challis's Tudor Coinage (1978), 986

Chandlee's How to Obtain a Patent (1917), 2914

Chandlee's What to Invent (1917), 2914

Chaney's Our Weights & Measures (1897), 1044, 2081, 2265

Chaney's Weights & Measures…in the British Empire (1897), 2319

Chisholm's On the Science of Weighing (1877), 2597

Chisholm's Weighing & Measuring & Standards of M & W (1877), 2082, 2092

Chitty's Burn's Justice of Peace & Parish Officer (1831), 2336

Cjourn's Weights & Measures of England (1987), 1074, 2531

Clark & Hall's Legislative & Documentary History Of Bank of US (1832), 2540

Clarke Morrison-Low & Simpson's Brass & Glass (1989), 1310, 2072

Clark's John Hull Builder of the Bay Colony (1940), 749

Clew's The Somershire Coal Canal & Railways (1986), 2419

Clifton's Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers (1995), 2014, 2579

Cochran-Patrick's Records of the Coinage of Scotland (1876), 2072

Cochran's Patent Balance Compared with Other Instruments for Weighing (1803), 2092

Connor & Simpson's Weights & Measures in Scotland: A European Perspective (2004), 3043–3045

Connor's W & M of England (1987), 1090, 1384, 1569, 1891, 1896, 1997, 2023, 2082, 2447, 2927, 3043

Considine's Industrial Weighing (1948), 2092

Copeland's Roads & Their Traffic 1750-1850 (1968), 728

Craig's, Newton at the Mint (1946), 1042, 1044, 1881

Craig's History of the London Mint (1953), 277, 498, 954

Cramer's Elementa Artis Docimasticae (1739), 630

Cranston's Regulating Business…Law (1979), 2037

Crawforth's

Scientific Instrument Makers in the London Guilds (1987), 1070

Sovereign Balances 1 (1983), 1622, 2287, 2288, 2292, 2765, 2777

Weighing Coins English folding gold bals of the 18th & 19th C (1979), 169, 675, 1070, 1083, 1309, 1625, 1846, 2014, 2072, 2084, 2224, 2541, 2566, 2579

Crawforth's Handbook of Old Weighing Instruments (1984), 685, 830, 2083, 2087, 2163, 2258–2259, 2341, 2343, 2575

Cross' History of Banking in California (1927), 153

Cunliffe's Parallel W & M Regulations (1908), 636

Curtis's Testing of Yarns & Fabrics (1930), 1175

Dameri's La Bona Opinione (1997), 2362–2364

Danforth's Nesting Wts, catalogue of Streeter Collection (1988), 1434, 2521, 2524

Darby's Gentleman's & Trader's Guide (1753), 1309

Davie's

Early Patent Drawings (1997), 2639

Guide to Historical Research in the PTO (1997), 2639

Dept of Ag, Bureau of Weights & Meas' Rules & Regulations relating to Wts & Meas (1951), 2156

Dericci & Wilson's Census of Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts (1935), 782

Detecto's A Pictorial History of Scales (1950), 2092

Detroit in History & Commerce (1891), 2610

Dictionary of Scientific Biography (1976), 1083

Dictionnaire Universel des Poids et Mesures (1965), 2912

Dieudonne's Manuel des Poids Monetaires (1925), 87, 498, 879, 881, 1562, 1607, 1796, 1879, 2363, 2517, 2867

Dobyn's The Patent Office Pony, A History of the Early Patent Office (1904), 2668, 2820

Dorchester Town Records (1885), 1858

Doursther's Dictionnaire Universel des Poids et Mesures (1940), 2323, 2524

Dresner's Units of Measurement, An Enclopaedic Ditionary (1971), 2561–2562

Easton's Tate's Modern Cambist (1908), 2093

Ede's Gold & Silver Coins (1808), 1785, 2586–2587

Ehrenkreutz's Ayyubid Mint in Cairo, 816

Eldred's Sampson Mordan & Co (1986), 950

Ellet's New Cyclopedia of Domestic Economy (1873), 1251

Encyclopaedia

Americana (1975), 2229

Britannica (1783), 132

Britannica (1797), 693, 723, 728, 2196, 2349

Britannica (1842), 1885

Britannica (1910), 1948

Britannica (1969), 6

Britannica (c. 1810), 135

Brockhaus (1987), 1948

Chambers, 135

Diderot (1751-1763), 468–476, 629–632, 1863, 2006

Instruments of Science (1998), 2239

of Islam (1965), 1025

Judaica (1971), 1948

Meyer (1971), 1948

Penny, 135

Universal Jewish (1948), 1948

Encyclopaedia of the History of Science (1996), 2091, 2510

Engelmann's Leben & Wirken…P H Hahn (1923), 610

Epstein's Babylonian Talmud Seder Nezikin Baba Bathra (1935), 1998

Fabyan's New Chronicles of England & France (1811), 1998

Fairbank's

Beginning the Second Century (1930), 2283, 2286

Early Recollections (1880), 2283, 2285–2286

Fairbanks Standard 150 Years 1830-1980 (1980), 2285–2286

Pioneers in Industry (1930), 2284–2286

Through the Years (1980), 77

Town of St. Johnsbury, Vermont (1914), 2284, 2286

Fanning's Steady as She Goes (1986), 1712

Faraday's English & Welsh Boroughs (n.d.), 1961

Felt's An Historical Account of Massachusetts Currency (1839), 817

Fieldhouse's For Land's Sake (1957), 2140

Fleta (1290), 2015, 2018

Foster's Politics of County Power (1985), 1961

Galster's En Sieger fra Alborg (1961), 1613

Gear & Gear's Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, & Medicine in Non-Western Cultures (1997), 2824

Geldof's Pondera Medicinalia (1989), 2351

Gemmill & Mayhew's Changing Values in Medieval Scotland (1995), 1997, 3044

Gentleman's & Traders' Guide (1753), 1309

Gibbon's Decline & Fall of Roman Empire n.d., 1025

Gibb's Money from Cowrie Shells to Credit Cards (1986), 1785

Gibson & Smout's Prices Food & Wages in Scotland 1550-1780 (1995), 1997

Gilbertoni, Melodi & Luppi's, Museo della Bilancia a Campogalliano (1995), 2403–2404

Giraud Histoire du pesage en regions Lyonnaise (1986), 2479, 2486

Graham's

Scales & Balances (1981), 1707, 2083

Weights & Measures

1979, 2899

1987, 1961

1993, 1788, 2083

Gravesande's Physicaes elementa mathematica (1742), 610

Gregory's East Yorkshire Windmills, 1120

Grierson's English Linear Measures (1972), 1997

Griffenhagen's Tools of the Apothecary (1956), 808

Griffin's Chemical Handicrafts (1866), 2735

Grolier's Encyclopaedia (1996), 2183

Grueber's Handbook of the Coins of Great Britain (1970), 1562, 1846

Gurley's

Handbook for Sealers of Weights & Measures (1910), 2160, 2965

Handbook of Weights & Measures for Use of Sealers (1912), 2092, 2965

Haeberle's Zehntausend Jahre Waage (1966), 87, 134, 278, 728, 885–888, 1465

Hakluyt's

Natural & Moral History of the Indies (1590), 2394

Voyage of Discovery (1598-1600), 56

Hale's Good Housekeeper (1839), 1251

Hall & Tilling's Correspondence of Isaac Newton (1976), 1066, 2402

Hall's Text Book of Physics, Largely Experimental (1893), 3092, 3096

Halsey & Dale's Metric Fallacy (1904), 2092

Handbook of Chemistry & Physics (1914-1960), 2525–2529

Handbuch der Historischen Metrologie Band I, Witthoft (1991), 2091

Hanham's Celys and their world: An English Merchant Family of the 15th C (1985), 2024

Hankerson's Cooperage Handbook (1947), 1140, 1858

Harris' LexiconTechnicum or The Universal English Dict of the Arts & Sciences (1710), 2731, 2735

Hatton's Essay on Gold Coins (1773), 1310

Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (1876), 535

Hening's Statutes at large of Virginia (1823), 1140, 1858

Herzfeld's Technical Testing of Yarns & Textile Fabrics (1902), 1175

Hibbert's History of Founders Co (1925), 1563

Hinz' Islamische Masse und Gewichte (1955), 912

Holbrook's Science Preserved (1992), 1846

Houben's

2000 jahr Gewichten in de Nederlanden (1984), 2522

2000 Years of Nested Cup Weights (1984), 1435, 2521, 2524

5000 Years of Weights (1900), 1607, 2529, 2530

Coin-weightmakers for coins from 24 countries (1998), 2333

De oudste Muntgewichten uit de Nederlanden 1300-1600 (1998), 2354

European Coin Wts for English Coins (1978), 87, 881, 1607, 2867

Jaarboek Munt-en Penningkunde (1975), 1901

Muntgewichten voor Munten van de Nederlanden (1982), 2766, 2867

Two Thousand Years of Nested Cup-wts (1984), 1435

Weighing of Money (1983), 816, 954, 1562, 1607, 1789, 1796, 1879, 1901

Hughes & Larkin's Tudor Royal Proclamations (1973), 986

Hultsch's Metrologicorum Scriptorum Reliquiae (1864-6), 1997

Huntar's Treatise of Wts Mets & Measures of Scotland (1624), 2072

Hunter's Paper Making (n.d.), 1705

Inspectors Vade Mecum (1910), 24, 636

International Congress, Modena's La Massa e la sua Misura (1995), 2217–2219

Iwata's

Changes in Mass Standards in Ancient Mesopotamia (1982), 2903, 2912

Standard deviation of Indus Weights (1975), 2912

Jackman's Development of Transportation in Modern England (1962), 728

Jackson's Victorian Chemist & Druggist (1981), 808

Jefferson's

Memorandum Books, 2535

Notes on the Establishments of a Money Unit (1784), 2536

Jenemann's

A Short History of the Development of the Scientific Balance (1975), 2190

Die Waage des Chemikers, The Chemist's Balance (1997), 2239,