Records, 1843-1846.

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Records, 1843-1846.

A small collection of legal agreements, receipts, and accounts related to Dr. Jacob Bigelow's interest in Daniel Treadwell's invention of improved manufacture of cannon from wrought iron and steel, and his shares in the Steel Cannon Co. (Boston, Mass.).

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SNAC Resource ID: 7263475

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Treadwell, Daniel, 1791-1872

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Treadwell received an honorary degree from Harvard in 1829 and taught application of science to the useful arts at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Daniel Treadwell, 1821-1887 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972906 ...

Steel Cannon Company (Boston, Mass.)

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Bigelow, Jacob, 1786-1879

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Physician and botanist of Boston, Mass. From the description of Jacob Bigelow letter, 1822-1833, [Boston]. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 34847536 Jacob Bigelow (Harvard University, A.B. 1806 and University of Pennsylvania, M.D. 1810) taught at Harvard Medical School from 1815-1855. With Dr. Francis Boott he began work on a flora of New England but this project was given up. From 1817-1820 he published American medical botany for which he drew many of the plates and ...