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Term: Salem

Description

Settled by immigrants from Plymouth in early 17th cen.; infamous for witchcraft trials of 1692; was prosperous base for privateers in Revolution & War of 1812; was home of Nathaniel Hawthorne & setting for his novel House of the Seven Gables.

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charts and diagrams related to Sylvania radio tubes

Salem Marine Society certificate given to David P. Wheatland

dated 1939

1.5-foot Gregorian reflecting telescope for equatorial mount

1788-1800

equatorially-mounted 1.5-inch refracting telescope

1760-1795

magic lantern

before 1766

People

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Neptron Corporation

founded 1928

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Sylvania Electric Products, Inc.

1924-present

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Hygrade Incandescent Lamp Company

1901 - 1931

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Essex Institute

1821-1992

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Bernard Cermenati

ca. 1783 - 1818