Ramsden, Jesse (1735-1800), optician and instrument-maker

1 manuscript note about the engineer John Smeaton (1724-1792), who was apprenticed to Ramsden, with an initialled endorsement by Ramsden, n.d. (no.11); 1 autograph letter, signed, from the natural philosopher Tiberius Cavallo F.R.S. (1749-1809), complaining on behalf of the Abbé Piazza about the failure to acknowledge the latter's work in translating an article about Ramsden for the European Magazine, 1789 (no.12).

18th century

2 items

Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts