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Term: Massachusetts

Description

Settled by Amerindians by 2nd mill. BC; Norsemen may have landed here in 1003; Europeans fished here in 16th cen.; Plymouth Colony established by English in 1620; played key role in Revolution; was intellectual center of nation until mid-19th cen. !

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azimuth circle for a mariner's compass
1919
vibration galvanometer (Duddell's patent)
circa 1910
contact key
1890-1920
Dormitzer "Synctron" electronic flash equipment
1940-1950
reflecting galvanometer
circa 1930

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Eastern Science Supply Company

fl. 1910s - 1940s
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Neptron Corporation

founded 1928
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Linewald

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ACME Apparatus Company

founded 1920
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Henry Bradford Washburn, Jr.

1910 - 2007

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