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Andrew Nichols

Civil Engineer from Danvers, Massachusetts.

A descendant of Edward Holyoke, former President of Harvard University. According to the instrument card of 5181, he surveyed the Pingree farm in 1878. A copy of a map of the farm exists in CHSI, object number 1998-1-1134.

David Wheatland acquired several instruments of Edward Holyoke and also of Andrew Nichols from one of his descendants, Andrew Nathan Nichols.

brass and mahogany clinometer

brass and mahogany clinometer

American
19th Century
Brewer's thermometer

Brewer's thermometer

J. S. F. Huddleston
circa 1860
draftsman's right triangle

draftsman's right triangle

American
circa 1855
draftsman's right triangle

draftsman's right triangle

American
circa 1855
drawing room thermometer

drawing room thermometer

Charles Wilder
1860-1890
hair hygrometer

hair hygrometer

Jones & Son
1806-1825
hardwood straight-edge

hardwood straight-edge

American
circa 1855
ivory hydrometer

ivory hydrometer

English
circa 1725
magnetic compass

magnetic compass

English
circa 1800
parallel rule

parallel rule

American
circa 1855
pine straight-edge

pine straight-edge

American
circa 1855
plan of the Pingree Farm in Topsfield, MA

plan of the Pingree Farm in Topsfield, MA

O. Lee Abbot
1963
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