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Located on Charles River; famed for 17th-cen. universities & religious congregations; first Massachusetts Constitutional Convention met here 1779-1780; famous natives include authors Longfellow & Oliver Wendell Holmes, & religious leader Mary Baker Eddy.

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dip circle
1765
azimuth compass
circa 1765
uninscribed Bell-type receiver
circa 1879
flue organ pipe
1880-1930
tripod for surveyor's level
circa 1765

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Kurt Lewin

1890 - 1947
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Feranti-Dege

1955 - 2006
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Daniel Branton

fl. 1962 to present
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Hugo Münsterberg

1863 - 1916
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Harvard University Press

1913-present

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