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Abel Buell of Connecticut, Silversmith, Typefounder & Engraver

by Lawrence C. Wroth

Pages: 102

Contributors: Lawrence C. Wroth

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

Place of Publication: Middletown, CT

Publication Year: 1958

Subjects: Buell, Abel,--1742-1822

Table of Contents

Title Page

Contents

Illustrations

Preface to the Second Edition

Preface to the First Edition

Silversmith, Engraver, Type Founder & Inventor

Jeweller & Silversmith

Type Founder

The First Connecticut Engraver

Conclusion

Notes

Index

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Abel Buell of Connecticut, Silversmith, Typefounder & Engraver

Book by Lawrence C. Wroth; Wesleyan University Press, 1958

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Buell, Abel--1742-1822

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...denizens will be able to visualize Abel Buell or wholly to appreciate him. Only...with its relation. The versatile Abel Buell, if I may use that worn epithet...Killingworth, Connecticut, on February 1, 1742. His father was John Buell of Killingworth...
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Inventors and Engineers of Old New Haven: A Series of Six Lectures Given in 1938 under the Auspices of the School of Engineering, Yale University

Book by Richard Shelton Kirby; New Haven Colony Historical Society, 1939

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Engineers--Connecticut--New Haven, Inventors--Connecticut--New Haven, Public Utilities--Connecticut--New Haven, Yale University--Sheffield Scientific School

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...was freed from the restrictions imposed by England. Among the earliest of the New Haven inventors were Buell and Augur. ABEL BUELL 1742-1822 , was a picturesque figure. He got off to a bad start as a counterfeiter, was tried and condemned...
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Connecticut: A Guide to Its Roads, Lore, and People

Book; Houghton Mifflin, 1938

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...in pre-Revolutionary days, Abel Buell 1742-1822 , a silversmith engraver and one...detected altering five-pound notes. Buell was imprisoned, cropped and branded...by his hair. While in prison, Buell invented the first lapidary machine...

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Buell, Abel

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BUELL, ABEL byoo l, 1742 1822, American silversmith, engraver, and type founder, b. Killingworth, Conn. He engraved a number of maps, including maps...

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