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Your search for signatures starting with K yielded 446 entries. Displaying entries 1–446.| Signature | Maker Info | Instruments | Comments | Location | References | Suggest Correction |
| K. | Germany, 18th Century, MIM | Diptych Sundials, wood = Larvik Marine Museum, Norway, POTS. | the mark is a crown over "K." | Körber 1; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| K.F. | Traverse Board = OMM. | RSW. | suggest correction | |||
| K.K. 1 | 17th Century, MIM | Navicula-type Sundial = OXF. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| K.K. 2 | Germany, 18th Century, MIM | Quadrant and Level, mining-type, ivory = OXF. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| K.L.C. 1 | c.1790, MIM SIM | Cartographic Surveying Rule = Christie-SK 11/27/86. | under a crown; also marked "N.G.H." | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| K.L.C. 2 | MIM | Rule, silver, in etui = NOR. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| K.M. 1 | Germany, 16th Century, MIM | Dividers with Sundial and Compass = FIN = EMA. | Zinner 1; RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| K.M. 2 | see H.A. K.M. | suggest correction | ||||
| K.S. | 1723, MIM | Bow Compass, 1723 = D.(1987). | Coffeen 15. | suggest correction | ||
| KACHLER | Germany, 19th Century, MIM | Horizontal Sundial = UTR. | Stuttgart. | de Rijk. | suggest correction | |
| KADAUER | see Kodauer. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction | |||
| KAERIUS, P. | 1614, MIM | Pair of Globes, 1614 = NMM-G.108, 109. | ex-Mensing Coll. | NMM 2. | suggest correction | |
| KAETHOFF, CASPAR | Holland, | see Caspar Kalthoff. | Daumas 1. | suggest correction | ||
| KAI?___, I.L. | 1666, NIM | Cross-staff, 1666 = PEA. | also marked "Edward Holyoke 1718." | Brewington 1; USNM; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KAKELAAR, HENDRIKUS | Holland, fl.1783-86, NIM | marked on compass card in Joseph van den Eeckout's grand orrery in Zeeuws Museum, Middelburg. | Middelburg. | Mörzer Bruyns 2. | suggest correction | |
| KALABERGO, G. | England, c.1820, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Christie-SK 11/21/95. | possibly misreading for John Kalabergo, which see. | Banbury. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| KALABERGO, JOHN | England, 1812-52, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = X (4), Phillips 9/10/86; Soth. 1/27/88. | the barometers at Phillips and Soth. were read as "G. Kalabergo Banbury." | Market Place (1830-32); Bridge Street North (1832-52); both in Banbury. | Goodison 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| KALLER | France, c.1760, NIM | Octant = POB. | also marked "ETS." | Paris. | Trois Siècles. | suggest correction |
| KALTENBACK, FALLER AND CO. | see Caltenback, Fuller and Co. | Bell 2. | suggest correction | |||
| KALTHOFF, CASPAR | Holland; England, fl.1628-64, MIM | excellent instrument maker; worked with Johannes Digges and William Corderoy. | Dordrecht; London. | Rooseboom 1; Dewhirst; Evans 1; Daumas 1. | suggest correction | |
| KAMPE, FRANZ LEBRECHT | Germany, 1712-85, MIM | Quadrant on stand = Universtätssternwarte, Göttingen. | made astronomical instruments and clocks. | Göttingen. | Zinner 1; Daumas 1. | suggest correction |
| KAMPF, JOHANN | Germany, 18th Century, MIM | Horizontal Sundial, round = ZUR. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction | ||
| KAMPMAN, J. | Holland, c.1770, MIM PHIM | Level, wood = TEY; Philosophical Instruments = TEY. | Amsterdam. | Rooseboom 1; G.L'E. Turner 7. | suggest correction | |
| KAMPMAN, J., AND ADAM STEITZ | Holland, c.1770, PHIM | Parabolic Trajectories = TEY (2); Rebound Trajectory = TEY; Projectile Trolley = TEY; Cycloidal Tracks = TEY (2); Inclined Planes = TEY; etc. | Amsterdam. | Rooseboom 1; G.L'E. Turner 7. | suggest correction | |
| KANDEL, JOHAN GEORG | Switzerland, MIM | Sundial = X. | Constanz. | Evans 1. | suggest correction | |
| KANTER, J. DE, PH.Z. | Holland, 1762-1841, MIM SIM | Pocket Solarium, paper and wood, 1788 = AMST. | author. | Wissekerke; Middelburg. | Mörzer Bruyns 1 & 2. | suggest correction |
| KANUMAK, PIOMA | Russia, NIM | Sextant = Central Naval Museum, Leningrad. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| KARL | Germany, 17th Century, MIM | Horizontal Sundial = P. and S. 2/9/1897. | Munich. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KARL, F. LIBERATUS | Germany, 1766, MIM | Horizontal Sundial, case, 1766 = P. and S. 3/8/1895. | Baden. | Evans 1. | suggest correction | |
| KARL, GEORG | Germany, 1598, MIM | Diptych Sundial, 1598 = OXF. | Zinner 1; Evans 1; Dewhirst; Michel 3; Gunther 2; Baillie 1. | suggest correction | ||
| KARMEYER | Germany, c.1650, MIM | Astrolabe Table Clock = X. | Marienburg. | Baillie 1. | suggest correction | |
| KARMOCK, JOHN | England, fl.1782-87, MIM | apprenticed to Thomas Ripley 1 of the Grocers' Company in 1773; free of the Company in 1782; took apprentices. | 35 Wapping Street (1782-86); 302 Bell Dock, Wapping (1787); both in London. | J. Brown 1. | suggest correction | |
| KARMOCK, STEPHEN | England, c.1783, | apprenticed to his brother, John Karmock, of the Grocers' Company, 1783. | J. Brown 1. | suggest correction | ||
| KARNER, ALBRECHT | Germany, 1619-87, MIM | Diptych Sundial, ivory = BUD (1655), Fränkel Coll. (1655), D.(1985) (1655), GRA (1658), BAM (1661), BM (1661), St. Gallen Altertums-Sammlung (1661), MEM (1662), WUP (1667), Michel Coll. (1668), ADL-DPW26 (1668), Hübner Coll., Vienna (1688), MUN, GRA, etc. | son of Conrad Karner 2; fl.1655-87; master mark is hunting horn; 1688 instrument probably misreading of date. | Nürnberg. | Zinner 1; Michel 1 and 3; Gunther 2; Dewhirst; Price 3; Ward 4; Baillie 1; Gouk 1; Coffeen 10; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction |
| KARNER, ANDREAS | Germany, 1620-82, MIM | compass maker; son of Hans Karner 1 or 2; Gouk's text does not agree with her chart. | Nürnberg. | Gouk 1. | suggest correction | |
| KARNER, CASPAR | Germany, 1542-pre-90, MIM | Diptych Sundial, ivory = OXF. | Master in 1564. | Nürnberg. | Michel 1 and 3; Baillie 1; Gouk 1. | suggest correction |
| KARNER, CONRAD 1 | Germany, fl.1567-71, MIM | compass maker; father of Conrad Karner 2. | Nürnberg. | Gouk 1. | suggest correction | |
| KARNER, CONRAD 2 | Germany, 1571-1632, MIM | Diptych Sundials, ivory = D.(1619), ADL-W21 (1621), BM (1622), LIE (1622), WHI (1623), Palazzo Madama, Turin (1623), MUN (1628), Huelsmann Coll. (1628), BASH (1629), OXF (1630), GEP (1631), NYS (1632), STU, National Museum, Helsinki, OXF, etc. | master mark is hunting horn. | Nürnberg. | Zinner 1; USNM; Gunther 2; Josten 1; Price 2 and 3; Ward 4; Michel 3; NMM 2; Baillie 1; Bryden 16; Gouk 1; Syndram; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction |
| KARNER, ELISABETH | Germany, fl.1564-90, | married Caspar Karner in 1564, had eight children; married Albrecht Lösel in 1590 and had one son, Michael Lesel, which see. | Nürnberg. | Gouk 1. | suggest correction | |
| KARNER, ERASMUS | Germany, 1614-51, MIM | compass maker; son of Conrad Karner 2. | Nürnberg. | Gouk 1. | suggest correction | |
| KARNER, GEORG | Germany, b.1648 fl.1679, MIM | Diptych Sundials, ivory = MUN (1679), P.C., OXF, UTR, etc.; Diptych Sundial, ivory, lower leaf = Landshut in Niederbayern Museum. | master mark is jumping horse; the UTR dial has only the master mark; Georg was Melchior Karner's brother and son of Albrecht Karner. | Nürnberg. | Zinner 1; Price 2; Evans 1; De Clerque 1; Gouk 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| KARNER, HANS 1 | Germany, fl.1588-1632, MIM | Diptych Sundials, ivory = D.(1983), ADL-W136. | the ADL sundial has two Maltese crosses in compass box. | Nürnberg. | Coffeen E; Gouk 1; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction |
| KARNER, HANS 2 | Germany, 1597-1676, MIM | compass maker; son of Hans Karner 1. | Nürnberg. | Gouk 1. | suggest correction | |
| KARNER, HANS 3 | Germany, 1650-1716, MIM | compass maker; son of Albrecht Karner. | Nürnberg. | Gouk 1. | suggest correction | |
| KARNER, HANS PAULUS | Germany, 1606-27, MIM | son of Hans Karner 1; compass maker; did not make ivory diptych sundials. | Nürnberg. | Gouk 1; RSW, | suggest correction | |
| KARNER, JACOB | Germany, 1612-48, MIM | Diptych Sundials, ivory = DEU (1599), WHI (1639), WHI (1648), WHI (3), NYC (incomplete). | master mark is "I.3 K.", which see; WHI (1648) is signed "3", other WHI, undated, are signed "I.3 K." and "3"; some of the rest of these sundials are signed thus or with a "3"; son of Conrad Karner 2; DEU (1599) diptych must be a misreading of the date. | Nürnberg. | Zinner 1; Bryden 16; Price 2; Gouk 1; Syndram; RSW. | suggest correction |
| KARNER, JACOB FRIEDRICH | Germany, 1640-86, MIM | compass maker; son of Jacob Karner and grandson of Conrad Karner 2. | Nürnberg. | Gouk 1. | suggest correction | |
| KARNER, LEONHARD ANDREAS | Germany, 1682-1733, MIM | Diptych Sundial, ivory = Heidelburg Museum (1732). | master mark was glove with cuff; see "L.K." 1 and "L.A.K." | Nürnberg. | Zinner 1; Evans 1; Gunther 2; Gouk 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| KARNER, MARTIN | Germany, 1606-32, MIM | compass maker; son of Conrad Karner 2. | Nürnberg. | Gouk 1. | suggest correction | |
| KARNER, MELCHIOR | Germany, 1642-1707, MIM | Diptych Sundials, ivory = Geneva Mus. of Horology (1665), LIN and KLA (1685), OXF and PAK (1690), P.C. (1687), etc. | master mark is 4; see "M.K." 3; Melchior was the son of Albrecht Karner; Gouk thought that the small, ivory on wood, diptych sundials stamped with mark of a mitten were his. | Arnstadt. | Zinner 1; Gunther 2; Evans 1; USNM; Dewhirst; Baillie 1; Gouk 1; Syndram; RSW. | suggest correction |
| KARRATT, S. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Newcastle-under-Lyme. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| KARRENO | 1786, MIM | Universal Ring Sundial, 1786 = SPI-2841; Sundial, 1786 = Bourgeois Sale. | might be the same dial. | Evans 1; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KARSENO | see Karreno. | Evans 1. | suggest correction | |||
| KARTARO, MARIO | see Mario Cartaro. | Tooley. | suggest correction | |||
| KASNER AND MOSS | Australia, MIM | Compass, pocket = Christie-SK 4/17/86. | Melbourne. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KASPAR, MICHAEL | see Michael Chasper. | suggest correction | ||||
| KASSELMAN, HENDRIK A. | Germany, c.1750, NIM | Octant = HAA. | Michel 1. | suggest correction | ||
| KATER, HENRY | England, 1777-1835, | with the Royal Engineers in India; improved geodetic instruments; invented a reversible pendulum to find the value of gravity; designed a hygrometer; Royal Society medal in 1817; F.R.S. | Taylor 2(999); McConnell (1984); G.L'E. Turner 24; DNB; RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| KAUFFER, MICHAEL | Germany, c.1655-1730, MIM | Astrolabe, 1681 = STU (ICA-571); Calendar, 1685 = STU; Quadrant, 1685 = STU; Astronomical Table = STU. | Kauffer "sculpsit" and Carolus Graff "delineavit" the instruments. | Augsburg. | Zinner 1; Bobinger 2; Himmerlein 1; Price 1; ICA 2; | suggest correction |
| KAUFMANN, C. | Germany, MIM | Polymeter = DEU. | Kreuzlingen. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KAUKOL, D.K. | Germany, 1708, MIM | Globe Sundial, 1708 = REG. | Altenbuch. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction | |
| KEAPPOCK, JAMES | USA, c.1753, NIM | Octant, 1753 = P.C. | Philadelphia, Pa. | D.J. Warner 10. | suggest correction | |
| KEATOR, FRED W. | USA, 20th Century, MIM | Mariner's Astrolabe = MYS. | modern reproduction. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KEEGAN, MICHAEL | England, c.1840, MIM OIM | 2 Phoenix Street, Soho, London. | O'Mara. | suggest correction | ||
| KEEN | England, MIM OIM | see Frodsham and Keen; Gray and Keen; and Jones, Gray and Keen. | Liverpool. | Bell 2; Soth. 6/16/75. | suggest correction | |
| KEEN AND FRODSHAM | England, c.1840, MIM OIM PHIM | Telescope = Nat'l Museum of Canada; Marine Barometer = X; Sextant = Soth. 12/10/73; Compass = Drouot 11/7/67. | Robert Keen and Charles Frodsham. | 17 South Castle Street, Liverpool. | Goodison 1; USNM; RSW. | suggest correction |
| KEEN, P.I. | England, NIM | Octant = Soth. 10/15/73. | probably a misreading of R.I. Keen; Robert John Keen. | Postern Row, Tower Hill, London. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| KEEN, ROBERT | England, fl.1845-54, MIM | see Frodsham and Keen; Jones, Gray and Keen; Gray and Keen. | Liverpool. | Brewington 1. | suggest correction | |
| KEEN, ROBERT JOHN | England, fl.1838, OIM | 8 Postern Row, Tower Hill, London. | Taylor 2(2164). | suggest correction | ||
| KEENE, ARTHUR B. | Ireland, c.1854, | Pair of Globes, 17" dia. = D.(1971). | agent for Thomas Maltby of London. | 4 Kildare Place, Dublin. | Bryden 9; RSW. | suggest correction |
| KEHEW, JOHN | USA, 1818-1889, MIM NIM OIM | Marine Compass = Whaling Museum, Nantucket, Mass.; Octant, ebony = D.(1992). | nephew of Samuel Emery; partner of Edward Samuel Ritchie in E.S. Ritchie and Co., Boston, 1862 on; T.C.(1841-56); dealer. | 69 North Water Street (1841-56); 49 North Water Street, corner of William Street (1859); both in New Bedford, Mass.; Boston, Mass. (1862). | Brewington 1; Price 2; Smart 1; D.J. Warner 10; Coffeen 36; RSW. | suggest correction |
| KEILL, SIMON | England, 1657, MIM | Horary Quadrant, 1657 = FLO-1294. | Bonelli 1. | suggest correction | ||
| KEITH, ALEXANDER | Scotland, c.1795, | designed a self-registering maximum-minimum thermometer and a surveying level. | Edinburgh. | Taylor 2(678 & 1000). | suggest correction | |
| KEITH, GEORGE | Scotland?, d.1812, PHIM | made clocks, watches, and barometers. | Strathaven. | Bell 2. | suggest correction | |
| KEIZER, LAWRENCE | England, c.1841, PHIM | made barometers and looking glasses. | Great Charlotte Street, Liverpool. | Bell 2. | suggest correction | |
| KELHAM, ROBERT | England, c.1850, PHIM | Stick Barometer = Amersham Auction 3/3/97. | Chelmsford. | ATG 4/12/97. | suggest correction | |
| KELLER | France, c. 1750, MIM NIM | made octants and other instruments. | Paris. | Nachet; Daumas 1. | suggest correction | |
| KELLER, J. CO. | Switzerland, | "J. Co. Keller Sculpsit" marked on horary quadrant by Johann Meylin. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction | ||
| KELLER, JOHANN CHRISTOF | Austria, c.1600, MIM | Horizontal Sundials = P.C., OXF (2), ADL-M293, Burndy Library, Conn., P. and S. 6/18/1894, P-B 1/22/54. | mathematician. | Linz. | Zinner 1; Engelmann 1; Michel 3; USNM; Baillie 1; Maddison 1; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction |
| KELLNER, KARL | Germany, c.1849, OIM | Microscope = LEY. | started Optical Institute in Wetzler in 1849. | Wetzler. | van der Star 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| KELLY, ELIZABETH | England, c.1838, OIM | optician. | 22 Charles Street, Hatton Garden, London. | O'Mara. | suggest correction | |
| KELSON, JONAS | England, 1648, MIM | Perpetual Calendar, oval, 1648 = OXF. | Simpson; RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| KELVEY | India; England, 19th Century, OIM | see Cooke and Kelvey. | Calcutta and Liverpool. | Soth. 2/28/80. | suggest correction | |
| KELVIN AND JAMES WHITE LTD. | SCOTLAND, PHIM | Marine Barometer and Sympiesometer = Soth. 7/19/88. | Glasgow. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KELVIN AND WHITE | USA, NIM | Nautical Rule = Drouot 11/30/70. | Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KELVIN, BOTTOMLEY AND BAIRD LTD. | Scotland, c.1870, PHIM | Stick Barometer = Soth. 7/19/88. | Glasgow. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KELVIN, LORD | William Thomson, which see. | G.L'E. Turner 24; Burnett (1984). | suggest correction | |||
| KEMEL, DE | Belgium, NIM | Sextant = DNM. | Antwerp. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KEMM, E. | England, post-1776, MIM | Terrestrial Globe, miniature, with celestial lining in fishskin case. | signed "A new GLOBE of the EARTH from the best Authorities by E. Kemm"; shows Cook's voyages in 1775 and 1776. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KEMP AND CO. | Scotland, fl.1835-99, PHIM | Thermometer = RSM; Meteorological Equipment (incomplete) = RSM; Disc Electrical Machine = RSM; Henley's Discharging Table = RSM; Furnace Cylinder = RSM; etc. | made chemical apparatus; founded by Kenneth Treasurer Kemp in 1835; he was joined by his brothers, James and Alexander Kemp, which see; firm was continued after 1864 by unidentified relatives from Glasgow. | 7 South College Street (1835-38); 53 South Bridge (1839-44); 12 and 13 Infirmary Street (1845-87); all in Edinburgh. | Taylor 2(2165); Bryden 3; Morrison-Low 2; Dewhirst. | suggest correction |
| KEMP, ALEXANDER | Scotland, 1822-54, PHIM | with Kemp and Co. from 1841-54, with his older brothers, James and Kenneth Treasurer Kemp, which see; author; made chemical equipment. | 53 South Bridge (1841-44); 12 and 13 Infirmary Street (1845-54); both in Edinburgh. | Morrison-Low 2. | suggest correction | |
| KEMP, JAMES | Scotland, 1802-64, PHIM | elder brother of Kenneth Treasurer Kemp; joined Kemp and Co. between 1841 and 1851; worked with his younger brother, Alexander Kemp; made chemical apparatus. | 12 and 13 Infirmary Street, Edinburgh (1845-64). | Morrison-Low 2. | suggest correction | |
| KEMP, JOHN | England, c.1825, PHIM | Barometer = P.C.; Wheel Barometer = Phillips 2/14/79; Stick Barometer = Soth. 5/1/86. | Wakefield. | Goodison 1; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KEMP, KENNETH TREASURER | Scotland, 1805-42, PHIM | Galvanic Battery, 1828 = RSM; Experimental Galvanic Battery, 1830 = RSM; Liquified Gases = RSM (4); Blowpipe, 1829 = RSM. | apprenticed to Drs. John and Thomas Johnstone Aitken, surgeon-apothecaries, in 1832 for five years; chemical apparatus maker from 1829 on; founded Kemp and Co. in 1835, which survived him until 1899; main interest was chemical electricity; author. | Surgeon Square, Edinburgh (1829-36). | Bryden 3; Morrison-Low 2. | suggest correction |
| KEMPSON AND KINDEN | England, fl.1803-09, MIM | Perpetual Calendar Discs = BM (1803 and 1809). | Birmingham. | Price 3; Ward 4. | suggest correction | |
| KEMPSON AND SON | England, 1826, MIM | Perpetual Calendar, 1826 = D.(1985). | perhaps P. Kempson and Son. | Birmingham. | Coffeen 9; RSW. | suggest correction |
| KEMPSON, P. | England, fl.1797-98, MIM | Perpetual Calendar Discs = BM (1797 and 1798). | Birmingham. | Price 3; Ward 4. | suggest correction | |
| KENDALL, EDWIN | USA, 1812-63?, PHIM | Aneroid Barometer = USNM. | second son of Thomas Kendall, Jr.; made thermometers and mercurial barometers by 1844; by 1858 he was making aneroid barometers. | New Lebanon, N.Y. (1844-58); Great Barrington, MA. (1858-59); New Lebanon Spa, N.Y. (Lebanon Springs, N.Y.) (1859-63). | S.C. Turner. | suggest correction |
| KENDALL, JOHN | USA, 1810-92, PHIM | son of Thomas Kendall, Jr.; trained by his father; continued his father's shop, 1831-92; renaming it John Kendall and Co.; took Edward C. Clark as partner;; thermometer maker. | New Lebanon, N.Y. | Smart 1; S.C. Turner. | suggest correction | |
| KENDALL, JOHN, AND CO. | USA, 1832-92, PHIM | made thermometers; John Kendall and Edward C. Clark. | New Lebanon, N.Y. | S.C. Turner. | suggest correction | |
| KENDALL, THOMAS, JR. | USA, 1786-1831, MIM PHIM | invented a linear dividing engine (Universal Graduator [Gradienter]) to mark thermometer tubes in 1817; made a great many thermometers; T.C.; had three sons, John, Edwin and David, which see. | Millbury, Mass. (pre-1817-20); New Lebanon, N.Y. (1820-31). | Smart 1; USNM; Bedini 8; S.C. Turner. | suggest correction | |
| KENDALL-GREEN, R.B. | England, PHIM | barometer maker. | Deddington; Oxford. | Bell 2. | suggest correction | |
| KENDRICK, ARCHIBALD | England, fl.1791-1820, PHIM | made weights. | London. | Crawforth 6. | suggest correction | |
| KENDRICK, ARCHIBALD, AND CO. | England, fl.1820-28, PHIM | made weights. | London. | Crawforth 6. | suggest correction | |
| KENDRICK, ARCHIBALD, AND SON | England, 1828-30, PHIM | weight makers; the firm became "Archibald Kendrick and Sons" (1830-79) and "Archibald Kendrick and Son Ltd" (1879-1986). | London. | Crawforth 6. | suggest correction | |
| KENDRICK, CHARLES | England, c.1850, PHIM | barometer maker. | Evesham Street, Alcester. | Bell 2. | suggest correction | |
| KENEY, VINCENT | England, c.1530, MIM | sundial maker? | London. | Baillie 1. | suggest correction | |
| KENINGHAM | see Cuningham. | P.J. Wallis; Taylor 1(22). | suggest correction | |||
| KENNARD, JOHN | USA, 1782-1861, MIM SIM | Quadrants with sights and compasses, wood = Dartmouth College Museum, Hanover, N. H./ Currier Gallery of Arts, Manchester, N.H., D.(1993). | compass card and dial of Dartmouth instrument made by Thomas Salters Bowles; D. signed "Newmarket"; made Phineas Merrill-type quadrant; Newmarket is now Newfields. | Portsmouth; Nashua; Concord; Newmarket; all in New Hampshire. | Bedini 1; Smart 1; Price 2; MAD, May, 1993. | suggest correction |
| KENNY, M.J. | USA, OIM | Telescope = USNM. | "inventor and builder." | Buffalo, N.Y. | USNM. | suggest correction |
| KENRICK, W. | Holland, c.1800, MIM | Magnetic Compass = TEY. | Amsterdam. | G.L'E. Turner 7. | suggest correction | |
| KENT, CHARLTON | England, NIM | Dip Needles = USNM (2); Kew Magnetometer = USNM. | Dover. | USNM. | suggest correction | |
| KENT, DAVID | NIM | Liquid Compass = D.(1975). | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| KENTISH, THOMAS | England, fl.1839-47, MIM | Slide Rule, wood = D. | designed a type of slide rule which had gauge points printed on a paper strip for the fourth side; author. | Taylor 2(2166); Delehar 9; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KENVYN, G. | see James Kynfin. | Michel 2; Taylor 1(73); Price 1. | suggest correction | |||
| KENVYN, JAMES | see James Kynfin. | RSW; Michel 2. | suggest correction | |||
| KENYON, HENRY | England, c.1840, MIM OIM | 126 High Street, Wapping, London. | O'Mara. | suggest correction | ||
| KEOHAN, THOMAS | England, fl.1816-40, MIM NIM OIM PHIM | Octant = PEA; Quadrant, ebony and brass = D.(1976); Telescope = D.(1972); Sextants = Seamans Institute of New York, Fall River Marine Museum, Mass.; Barometer = Christie-SK 5/15/96. | apprenticed to William Elliott 1 in the Joiners' Company, Dec. 17, 1816. | 1 Arbour Terrace (pre-1836); 33 Upper Smithfield; 53 John Street; 2 Arbour Terrace, Commercial Road East; all in London. | Bell 2; USNM; Brewington 1; Taylor 2(2218); Moskowitz 104; O'Mara; Rinaldi 2; Crawforth 7; RSW. | suggest correction |
| KEPLER, JOHANN | Germany, 1571-1630, | astronomer; worked for Tycho Brahe and then for Rudolph II; author; developed the Keplerian telescope; determined the elliptical orbits of the planets. | Dreyer; etc. | suggest correction | ||
| KEPPELER, JOHAN NEPOMUK | Germany, 1834, MIM | Horizontal Sundial, honestone, 1834 = P. and S. 3/20/1896. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| KERBY, FREDERICK | England, c.1840, MIM PHIM | Platt Terrace, Kings Cross, London. | O'Mara. | suggest correction | ||
| KERLING, H.J. WAT | Germany, MIM SIM | Circumferentor = DEU. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction | ||
| KERN, J. | Switzerland, c.1850, MIM | Set of Drawing Instruments = Koller May, 1972. | Kern had a display in the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London. | Aarau. | G.L'E. Turner 24; RSW. | suggest correction |
| KERN, S. | USA, c.1846, | invented a surveying compass made by Jacob Sensensy Danner, which see. | Strasburgh, Va. | Smart 1; USNM. | suggest correction | |
| KERNER, MELCHER | Germany, | surely Melchior Karner. | Soth. 12/8/69. | suggest correction | ||
| KERR, ALEXANDER | Scotland, c.1820, PHIM | Stick Barometer = X. | clockmaker. | Annan. | Goodison 1; Baillie 1. | suggest correction |
| KESER, HANS | Germany, c.1528, MIM | compass maker. | Nürnberg. | Gouk 1. | suggest correction | |
| KESSEL | Germany, 1742, MIM | Polyhedral Sundial, marble, 1742 = ADL-M483. | similar sundial at STU. | Engelmann 1; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KESSLER, FRANZ | Zinner 1; Vey. | suggest correction | ||||
| KETTERER, ALOYSIUS | England; USA, fl.1789-90, PHIM | made barometers and thermometers; succeeded John Deregan; succeeded by Martin Fisher. | at the Sign of the Seven Stars, Race and Fourth Streets (1789); in house of Nicholas Hess on Race Street, opposite the German church (1790); both in Philadelphia, Pa. | Bedini 1 and 8; Gillingham 1. | suggest correction | |
| KETTERRER | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = X, Soth.-Chester 3/9/83. | 99 Queen Street, Portsea. | Goodison 1; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KETTLE, NATHANIEL | England, c.1754, | apprenticed to George Adams 1 of the Grocers' Company in 1754. | J. Brown 1. | suggest correction | ||
| KETTLEWELL, C.J. | England, 19th Century, NIM | Sextant = Phillips 2/2/84. | also marked "Patent Composite Arc." | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KEULEN, ABRAHAM VAN | Holland, 1697, MIM | Globe, 2-inch diameter, leather case = D.(1990). | advertised a pocket globe in 1697; leather case has signed, celestial lining. | Amsterdam. | Edell 1; Krogt 2; RSW. | suggest correction |
| KEULEN, CORNELIS BUYS VAN | Holland, fl.1756-78, NIM | partner in Johannes van Keulen (3) en Zoonen, 1756-78. | Amsterdam. | Mörzer Bruyns 2. | suggest correction | |
| KEULEN, GERARD HULST VAN | see Hulst van Keulen, Gerard. | Mörzer Bruyns 1 & 2. | suggest correction | |||
| KEULEN, GERARD VAN | Holland, c.1678-1726, NIM | also signed "G.v.K."; cross-staff signed that way at UTR; took Johannes van Keulen 3 as partner in 1725. | Amsterdam. | Mörzer Bruyns 2. | suggest correction | |
| KEULEN, JAN VAN | Holland, 1724, NIM | Cross-staves = UTR (1724), UTR. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| KEULEN, JOHANNES VAN (3), EN ZOONEN | Holland, fl.1756-1801, NIM | made many cross-staves and octants; dates ranged from 1758-80; examples can be seen at ADL, AMST, Groningen Museum, PMM, UTR, Fishery Museum, Vlaardingen, etc; many signed "I.v.K." or "J.v.K." | Gerard Hulst van Keulen, partner in 1756-79; Cornelis Buys van Keulen, partner in 1778-79; Johannes van Keulen 4 was partner in 1778. | Amsterdam. | Mörzer Bruyns 1 and 2; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction |
| KEULEN, JOHANNES VAN 1 | Holland, 1654-1715, MIM NIM | Planetaria = LEY (2); Cross-staves = AMST (1700), HAM (1701), School of Navigation, Altona (1701), P.C. (1702), UTR; Bearing Compass = AMST; Astrolabe, paper (in book) = BAR; Roemer's Jovilabe and Saturnilabe = lost. | planetaria made to Huygens' design; cross-staves signed either "I.v.K." or "J.v.K."; associated with Jacob Robijn in 1679; also made clocks. | Amsterdam (1682); The Hague. | Mörzer Bruyns 1 and 2; Daumas 1; Rooseboom 1; H.C. King 2. | suggest correction |
| KEULEN, JOHANNES VAN 2 | Holland, fl.1684-99, | published books and sea charts; published planisphere by Nicolas J. Vooghdio, Amsterdam, ADL-A286. | Amsterdam. | Krogt 2; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KEULEN, JOHANNES VAN 3 | Holland, fl.1725-56, MIM NIM | Cross-staves = HAM (1733), P.C. (1736), P.C. (1740), P.C. (1751), Municipal Museum, Westterschelling (1755); Azimuth Compasses = RIJ (2); Bearing Compass = RIJ; Pleinschaal = RIJ. | two cross-staves signed "I.v.K." and three signed "J.v.K."; compass brass plate signed "Johannes van Keulen * Wed. G. Hulst van Keulen"; Weduwe Gerard van Keulen was partner, 1726-31; Weduwe Johannes van Keulen 1 was partner, 1755-56; pleinschaal is a form of Gunter rule. | Amsterdam. | Mörzer Bruyns 1, 2 and 4; Rooseboom 1; Daumas 1; Cowan; Engelsman. | suggest correction |
| KEULEN, JOHANNES VAN 4 | Holland, fl.1776-78, NIM | Cross-staff, 1776 = PMM. | cross-staff signed "I.v.K. 1776 Amsterdam"; partner in Johannes van Keulen (3) en Zoonen in 1778. | Amsterdam. | Mörzer Bruyns 2; RSW. | suggest correction |
| KEULEN, WEDUWE GERARD VAN | Holland, fl.1726-31, NIM | partner with Johannes van Keulen 3 in 1726-31. | Amsterdam. | Mörzer Bruyns 1 and 2. | suggest correction | |
| KEULEN, WEDUWE JOHANNES VAN | Holland, 1755-56, NIM | she was widow of Johannes van Keulen 1; partner with Johannes van Keulen 3 in 1755-56. | Amsterdam. | Mörzer Bruyns 1 and 2. | suggest correction | |
| KEUZEKAMP, F. | Holland, 1799, PHIM | Electrical Machine, 1799 = Frans Pasteur (1799). | Delft. | Rooseboom 1. | suggest correction | |
| KEWLEY, JOHN | England, 1774, MIM | Sundial = Ballafreer Farm, Braddan, Isle of Man; Instrument, 1774 = Evans Coll. | Gatty; Evans 1. | suggest correction | ||
| KEWLEY, THOMAS | England, c.1816, PHIM | devised an improved thermometer. | Aldersgate Street, London. | Taylor 2(1312). | suggest correction | |
| KEYL, JULIUS | Germany, c.1850, MIM | Mining Compass = DRE. | Zwickau. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KEYNON | England, c.1840, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Soth.-C 6/6/85. | Stockport. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KEYS, HENRY | England, c.1716, | apprenticed to Robert Chantrey of the Grocers' Company, 1716. | J. Brown 1. | suggest correction | ||
| KEYZOR AND BENDON | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Keyzor and Bendon were brothers born Abraham and George Bandan. Their parents were Moses Bandan (later Bendon) and Alice Kyezor (aka Keyzor). Abraham changed his surname to Keyzor when he went to work with his Uncle Michael Keyzor in Norfolk in 1847. They started out as Opticians. When Abraham returned to London in 1855 he took over the business established by William Harris & Son at 50 High Holborn and originally called it Keyzor & Co. His younger brother George, then known as George Bendon joined him prior to 1861. They operated the business under the name Keyzor and Bendon until Abraham's death in 1873. | 50 High Holborn, London. | Goodison 1; Bell 2; WEBDB. | suggest correction |
| KIBBLE | England, c.1830, PHIM | Stick Barometers = D.(1976), D.(1988). | Greenwich. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KIBBLE, JOHN | England, fl.1824-37, MIM | made drawing instruments. | 81 Highfield Street and 27 Great Crosshall Street, Liverpool. | Taylor 2(1614); Crawforth 6. | suggest correction | |
| KIDD | England, PHIM | Stick Barometer = CMY. | Malton. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KIENING, CHRISTOPH | Germany, 1582, MIM | Sundial, stone, 1582 = MUN. | from the Bassermann-Jordan Coll. | Füssen. | Bassermann-Jordan 1; Michel 3. | suggest correction |
| KIENING, HANS | Germany, fl.1575-78, MIM | Book-form Clocks with Sundials in lids = OXF (1575), X; Astronomical Clock, 1578 = VIE. | Füssen. | Zinner 1; Baillie 1; Michel 3. | suggest correction | |
| KIENING, ISAAK | Germany, fl.1568-76, MIM | Horizontal Sundials = MUB (1568), AUG (1569), VIE (1569), St.Gallen Altertumssammlung (1576), Bebenhausen Schloss (1576), Christie 3/29/90 (1570). | the sundials in AUG and Christie are made of stone. | Isny. | Zinner 1; Price 2; Evans 1; Michel 3; RSW. | suggest correction |
| KIESTRA, JOH. | Holland, 1821-1906, OIM | Lens for telescope = Eisinga's house, Franeker. | Herbagum. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KILBINGTON | England, c.1789, MIM | compass maker; see Edwards and Kilbington. | Wapping, London. | Taylor 2(831 & 860). | suggest correction | |
| KILLICK | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | may be James Killick. | Goodison 1; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KILLICK AND WEBB | England, c.1850, PHIM | barometer makers. | Opposite the Albert Gate, London. | Bell 2. | suggest correction | |
| KILLICK, JAMES | England, fl.1839-50, PHIM | barometer maker; see Killick; silversmith. | St. George's Place, London. | Bell 2. | suggest correction | |
| KILNER, THOMAS | England?, 1649, MIM | Horizontal Sundial, 1649 = PRZ. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| KILPATRICK, ALEXANDER | Scotlandfl.1820-32, PHIM | maker of chemical apparatus; started as a tinsmith before 1820. | 14 Crosscauseway (1826-32); 1 Hope Street (1832); both in Edinburgh. | Bryden 3. | suggest correction | |
| KILPATRICK, JOHN | Scotland, fl.1833-36, PHIM | chemical apparatus maker. | 14 Crosscauseway and 1 Hope Street (1833); 1 Hope Street (1834-36); both in Edinburgh. | Bryden 3. | suggest correction | |
| KIMBELL, ISAAC | England, fl.1775-1828, OIM | 21 Dean Street, Fetter Lane; London. | Taylor 2(737); Clay and Court; Crawforth 6. | suggest correction | ||
| KIMBELL, JOHN | England, fl.1817-29, MIM OIM PHIM | apprenticed to Benjamin Martin in the Goldsmiths' Company on April 4, 1763. | 21 Dean Street, Fetter Lane; London. | Taylor 2(1372); Dewhirst; Crawforth 6. | suggest correction | |
| KINDLER, E. | USA, 19th Century, MIM | Circular Slide Rule = ADL-G5. | Chicago, Ill. | ADL; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KINDON | England, | see Kempson and Kindon. | Birmingham. | Price 3. | suggest correction | |
| KINDON, JAMES | England, 1771, MIM | Rule, boxwood, 1771 = Lunar Society Exhibition, 1966. | Birmingham. | Bryden 9. | suggest correction | |
| KING 1 | Scotland, c.1790, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = D.(1973). | 45 Baldwin's Green, Leith; Lanark. | Morrison-Low; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KING 2 | England, c.1822, MIM NIM | Octant, ebony = Soth. 11/9/70; Equatorial Sundial = Christie 12/12/72. | John King 2 (?). | Bristol. | Bryden 9. | suggest correction |
| KING 3 | England, 19th Century, PHIM | Wheel Barometer with clock = Christie-NY 10/26/87. | has thermometer and hygrometer. | London. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| KING 4 | England, c.1830, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Soth.-PB pre-1980. | could be G.B. King, John King 2 or Thomas D. King. | Bristol. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| KING AND COOMBS | England, c.1850, OIM PHIM | Prism, Amici-type = D.(1983). | 2 Clare Street, Bristol. | Coffeen C. | suggest correction | |
| KING AND HAGGER | USA, fl.1759-62, MIM NIM | Benjamin King 1 and either William Hagger or William Guyse Hagger. | near the Sign of Mr. Pitt, Newport, R.I. | Bedini 1. | suggest correction | |
| KING AND SON | England, OIM | Microscope, botanical = Christie-SK 11/19/87. | probably J. King and Son, which see. | Bristol. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| KING, ALEXANDER | Scotland, c.1840, NIM | 37 High Street, Dundee. | Bryden 3. | suggest correction | ||
| KING, BENJAMIN 1 | USA, 1707-86, MIM NIM | Backstaves = New Bedford Whaling Museum (1758 & 1785), P.C. (1760, 1763, 1764), Duke's Cty. Hist. Soc. (1754), MYS (1758 & 1762), Shelburne Mus. (1762), Phillips House, Wickford (1762), R.I. Historical Society (1762), Newport Historical Society (1771 & 1785), Fall River Marine Museum, Mass. (1758), etc.; Octant, 1767 = Soth. 5/21/73; Caleb Smith-type Hadley Quadrants = J.C. Brown Library, Brown U., X (1769). | brother of Daniel King; father of Samuel King; partner of Hagger; in business for himself before 1760. | Salem, Mass.; at the Sign of the Mathematical Instruments, next to the Golden Eagle on Thames Street, Newport R.I. (1742-64); Charleston, S. Car. (1765). | Bedini 1 & 8; Smart 1; Brewington 1; Evans 1; USNM; Moskowitz 102; D.J. Warner 8, 10 and 12; RSW. | suggest correction |
| KING, BENJAMIN 2 | USA, 1740-1804, MIM NIM | Backstaff, 1770 = DeLuca 8/1/87 = D.(1989); Backstaff, 1775 = PEA; Marine Compass = PEA; Octant, 1767 = Soth. 1973. | apprenticed to his father, Daniel King; nephew of Benjamin King 1; succeeded by his son-in-law, Capt. Jonathan Mason. | Court Street; Lynde Street; both in Salem, New England. | Bedini 1 & 8; Brewington 1; Bryden 9; Smart 1; D.J. Warner 8, 10 and 12; RSW. | suggest correction |
| KING, CHARLES GEDNEY | USA, 1808-72, MIM NIM PHIM SIM | Surveying Crosses = ESS(2); Transit = GUR; Surveying Compasses = Old Gaol Museum, Maine, DeLuca 8/1/87. | son of Gedney King; see Gedney King and Son.; T.C.; most instruments signed "C.G. King." | No. 7 Broad Street, third store from State Street (1839-58); Washington Street (1858-72); both in Boston, Mass. | Brewington 1; Smart 1; USNM; Moskowitz 103; RSW. | suggest correction |
| KING, DANIEL | USA, 1704-90, MIM NIM PHIM SIM | Surveying Compass, wood, 1744 = P.C.; Graphometer, wood, 1767 = PEA; Backstaff, 1766 = R.L. Foster, Jr. Auction, 8/1/86 = Foster, Jr. Auction 8/1/88 = Maine Maritime Museum; Electrostatic Machine = X. | brother of Benjamin King 1; father of Benjamin King 2 and had him as an apprentice; the 1744 compass card is marked with a tide table; backstaff made for Nicholas Gifford, March 24, 1766, "scrimshawed." | Salem, New England. | Bedini 1, 8 and 14; Smart 1; Brewington 1; D.J. Warner 8 and 12; RSW. | suggest correction |
| KING, F.W. AND R. | England; USA, fl.1849-75, MIM NIM SIM | Surveying Compasses = GUR, P.C., D.(1983); Level Holder = USNM. | Frederick W. and Richard King; successors to James Green 2 (pre-1851); succeeded by Edward Meister in 1876; T.C. | London; 13 Nassau Street, New York, N.Y. (1849-50); 33 South Street (1851-); 226 Baltimore Street; both in Baltimore, Md. | Smart 1. USNM; RSW. | suggest correction |
| KING, FREDERICK W. | USA, 1821-89, MIM NIM PHIM SIM | see F.W. and R. King. | New York, N.Y.; Baltimore, Md. | Smart 1; USNM. | suggest correction | |
| KING, G.B. | England, fl.1821-50+, PHIM | made barometers. | College Green, Bristol. | Bell 2. | suggest correction | |
| KING, GEDNEY | USA, 1777-1839, MIM NIM | Marine Compasses = PEA (2), D.(1974). | father of Charles Gedney King; apprenticed to his uncle, Benjamin King 2; Joseph Callender and Thomas Wightman produced his compass cards; T.C.; see Gedney King and Son. | Fore Street, near foot of Cross Street (1800); No. 8 North Row, Fish Street (1803); 10 North Row, Fish Street (1805); 29 State Street (1820); 113 State Street (1826); 118 State Street (1827); 7 Broad Street (1831); 95 State Street; all in Boston, Mass. | Smart 1; Brewington 1; Moskowitz 108; Bedini 8; USNM; D.J.Warner 10 and 12; RSW. | suggest correction |
| KING, GEDNEY, AND SON | USA, fl.1832-39, MIM NIM | son was Charles Gedney King; T.C. | 7 Broad Street, Boston, Mass. | Brewington 1; Smart 1; Coffeen H. | suggest correction | |
| KING, GEORGE | England, fl.1802-09, MIM | clock and watch maker; repaired and sold mathematical instruments. | Crawforth 1. | suggest correction | ||
| KING, GREGORY | England, fl.1628-82, MIM | a diallist. | Lichfield. | Taylor 1(161). | suggest correction | |
| KING, H.J., AND CO. | Scotland, c.1850, MIM | Micrometer = BIR. | engineers. | Glasgow. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| KING, I. | England, c.1775, OIM | Microscope, improved compound = Soth. 12/10/73. | John King 3? | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KING, J., AND SON | England, fl.1823-31, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = X (2), Soth. 6/27/88. | opticians; John King 3 and John King 4. | 2 Clare Street, Bristol. | Bryden 9; Goodison 1; Bell 2; Taylor 2(1615); RSW. | suggest correction |
| KING, JOHN 1 | Scotland, c.1780, PHIM | also made clocks. | Aberdeen. | Bryden 3; J.S. Reid; | suggest correction | |
| KING, JOHN 2 | England, fl.1788-1805, MIM | apprenticed to William Spencer 2 in the Grocers' Company in 1781; free of the Company in 1788; took apprentices. | Greenfield Street, Whitechapel (1788); No. 1 Prince's Street, Ratcliffe Highway (1795); Thomas Street, Whitechapel (1802); all in London. | J. Brown 1. | suggest correction | |
| KING, JOHN 3 | England, c.1822, MIM NIM OIM PHIM SIM | Microscope, compound = Soth. 7/23/73; Theodolite = Christie-SK 4/17/86; Surveying Level = Soth. 7/15/63 = P.C.; Marine Barometer = Soth.-S 9/18/86. | optician; made barometers; father of John King 4; see J. King and Son; sometimes signed "J. King"; barometer from Soth.-S is signed on paper scale. | 2 Clare Street (1822); J. Stone Summer Hill Academy; both in Bristol. | Bell 2; Bryden 9; Goodison 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| KING, JOHN 4 | England, c.1839, MIM OIM PHIM | optician; barometer maker; son of John King 3; see J. King and Son. | Clare Street, Bristol. | Bell 2. | suggest correction | |
| KING, JOHN 5 | England, c.1830, MIM PHIM | 13 Goswell Street, London. | Taylor 2(1908). | suggest correction | ||
| KING, JOHN 6 | England, c.1830, MIM PHIM | 6 Cannon Street, St.George's End, London. | Taylor 2(1909). | suggest correction | ||
| KING, JOHN 7 | England, c.1830, MIM OIM PHIM | 112 Leadenhall Street, London. | Taylor 2(1910). | suggest correction | ||
| KING, JOHN 8 | England, c.1700, | apprenticed to Thomas Cooke 2 in the Joiners' Company. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | ||
| KING, JOHN SUMNER | England, c.1782, | apprenticed to John Karmock of the Grocers' Company in 1782. | London. | J.Brown 1. | suggest correction | |
| KING, MRS. THOMAS | England, c.1677-79, OIM | widow of Thomas King 1. | London. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | |
| KING, PETER | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Southwark, London. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| KING, RICHARD | England; USA, 1823-1905, MIM NIM | see F.W. and R. King. | London; New York, N.Y.; Baltimore, Md. | Smart 1. | suggest correction | |
| KING, ROBERT | England; USA, c.1789-1868, MIM NIM | T.C.; made or sold nautical compasses. | 82 Duane (1812); 16 Elm Street (1814-15); 108 Orchard (1823-24); 19 Lombardy (1827-30); 19 Monroe (1831-32); 18 Monroe (1832-37); 219 Fourth (1837-38); 212 Front Street (1838-43); all in New York, N.Y.; New Orleans (1822-23). | USNM; Smart 1; Moskowitz 101; D.J. Warner 10 and 12.. | suggest correction | |
| KING, SAMUEL | USA, 1748-1819, MIM NIM | son of Benjamin King 1; succeeded his father in 1786. | at the Sign of the Mathematical Instruments, on Thames and Pelham Streets, Newport, R.I. | Bedini 1 and 8; Brewington 1; Smart 1. | suggest correction | |
| KING, STEPHEN | 1793, NIM | T.C. | Price 2; RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| KING, THOMAS 1 | England, fl.1669-76, MIM OIM | sometimes spelt "Kinge"; apprenticed to Ralph Greatorex of the Clockmakers' Company on Jan.13, 1657; free in the Clockmakers' Company, April 15, 1669; in the Spectaclemakers' Company by 1669; probably OIM as two of his apprentices were Thomas Sterrop 1 and James Mann 1. | Little Britain?, London. | Court and von Rohr 3(21); Clay and Court; J. Brown 3; Crawforth 6; Robischon. | suggest correction | |
| KING, THOMAS 2 | USA, c.1815, MIM | 21 Elm, New York, N.Y. | USNM. | suggest correction | ||
| KING, WILLIAM | Ireland, fl.1767-84, MIM NIM | Hadley Quadrants = Whaling Museum, Nantucket, Mass.; P.C.(1784); D.(1771), (1997). | Temple Bar, Dublin (1767-72). | Morrison-Low and Burnett; Coffeen 58; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KINGE, THOMAS | see Thomas King 1. | Robischon. | suggest correction | |||
| KINNY, BALTASAR | Scotland, | see Balthazar Knie. | Bryden 10. | suggest correction | ||
| KINSNATTER, GEORG | Germany, 16th Century., MIM | Astrolabe Clock = TIM. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| KINZELBACH | Germany, c.1850, MIM | showed in the London Great Exhibition of 1851. | Stuttgart, Württemburg. | G.L'E. Turner 24. | suggest correction | |
| KIPP EN ZONEN GILTRAY | Holland, fl.1864-1929, MIM NIM OIM | Telescope, binocular = AMST. | A.P.Kipp and J.W. Giltray, 1864-1916; Giltray alone, 1917-29. | Delft. | Mörzer Bruyns 1 and 2. | suggest correction |
| KIPP, A.P. | Holland, 1834-1916, MIM NIM OIM | son of P.J. Kipp; member of the firm 1864-1916. | Delft. | Mörzer Bruyns 1 and 2. | suggest correction | |
| KIPP, P.J., EN ZONEN | Holland, fl.1864-1917, MIM NIM OIM PHIM | Laboratory Apparatus = TEY; Naval Telescopes = TEY; Binocular Telescope = AMST; Pyrometers, clay = X; Sextants = AMST, Royal Dutch Meteorological Office. | A.J. and W.A. Kipp are the sons. | Delft. | Mörzer Bruyns 1 & 2; Rooseboom 1; G.L'E. Turner 7 and 24; USNM. | suggest correction |
| KIPP, P.J., EN ZOON | Holland, c.1854-64, MIM NIM OIM PHIM | P.J. Kipp and A.P. Kipp, his son. | Delft. | Mörzer Bruyns 2. | suggest correction | |
| KIPP, PETRUS JOHANNES | Holland, 1801-64, PHIM | scientist; designed and made scientific apparatus including a carbon dioxide generator; there is an example at Cragside (1982); see P.J. Kipp en Zoon; see P.J. Kipp en Zonen; A.J. and W.A. Kipp were his sons. | Oulde Delft. | Rooseboom 1; USNM; G.L'E. Turner 24; Mörzer Bruyns 2; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KIPP, W.A. | Holland, fl.1864-, MIM NIM OIM | son of P.J. Kipp; partner in P.J. Kipp en Zoon with his brother, A.J. Kipp. | Delft. | G.L'E. Turner 24; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KIRBY, JAS. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Baillie has watchmaker by that name in St Neots, c.1795. | St. Neots. | Greppin 1; Baillie 1. | suggest correction |
| KIRBY, JOHN JOSHUA | England, 1716-74, MIM | Protractor with pivoted rule, silver = OXF; Sector, ivory and silver, 1765 = Soth. 3/10/87. | invented this type of protractor; F.R.S.; "Designer in Perspective to His Majesty, George III"; surely same as Joshua Kirby; wrote on archetectonic sector. | Ipswich. | Taylor 2(373); A.J. Turner 10; RSW. | suggest correction |
| KIRBY, JOSHUA | England, | see John Joshua Kirby. | Taylor 2(373). | suggest correction | ||
| KIRCH, HENRICUS | Germany, 1749-81, PHIM | Coin Balance = D.(1986). | the balance is signed "Meister Henricus Kirch." | Cologne. | Wynter 1. | suggest correction |
| KIRCH, JOHANNES | Germany, c.1750, PHIM | Coin Balance = Soth. 10/3/88. | Cologne. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KIRCHER, ATHANASIUS | Germany; Italy, 1602-80, MIM | Reckoning Machine = DRE (lost); Wall Sundials = Heiligenstadt (1624), Koblenz (1623). | author; designed a new type of astrolabe (Gunther 187) and a pantometrium. | Geyssen, Germany; Rome. | Zinner 1; Gunther 1; Michel 2 and 3; Dewhirst; RSW. | suggest correction |
| KIRCHER, R.P. | 1646, MIM | may be Athanasius Kircher. | Moreux. | suggest correction | ||
| KIRCHNER | pre-1814, MIM | Measuring Instrument = CNAM. | Cons. Nat'l 1; Destombes 4. | suggest correction | ||
| KIRKE, FRANCIS | England, 1723, NIM | Backstaff, 1723 = Christie-SK 11/27/86. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| KIRKPATRIC, D. | England, fl.1812-26, | devised an artificial horizon. | 16 Cornwallis Street, Liverpool. | Taylor 2(1374). | suggest correction | |
| KIRKWOOD 1 | Scotland, fl.1804-28, MIM | Celestial Globe, 1810 = RSM. | Edinburgh. | Morrison-Low 1; A.D.C. Simpson; Grimaldi. | suggest correction | |
| KIRKWOOD 2 | England, c.1850, MIM | Pairs of Globes = K. and C. 3/19/75, Phillips 5/20/75. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| KIRKWOOD 3 | England, PHIM | Stick Barometer = X. | Woller. | Goodison 1; Baillie 1. | suggest correction | |
| KIRTON, JOHN | England, 1696, | apprenticed to Daniel Quare 1 in the Spectaclemakers' Company in 1696. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
| KITCHEN, JAMES | England, c.1840, MIM OIM | 105 Fenchurch Street, London. | O'Mara. | suggest correction | ||
| KITCHENMUN, T. | England, c.1808, MIM | designed a slide rule; sometimes spelled "Ketchenmun." | Taylor 2(1171a); USNM. | suggest correction | ||
| KITCHINGMAN, JOHN | England, c.1792, MIM | free of the Turners' Company; took apprentices, including Anthony Oldiss Bancks (optician). | London. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction | |
| KITSON, GEORGE | England, c.1700, NIM | Compass = CLU; Crown Compass = PMM. | Wapping Old Stairs, London. | Taylor 1(351); RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KJERSGAARD, S., AND CO. | Denmark, 19th Century, NIM | Marine Compass = USNM. | Copenhagen. | USNM. | suggest correction | |
| KLAU | MIM | Sundial, ivory = Christie 4/18/1899. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| KLEIN, JACOBUS | Holland, c.1760, NIM | Davis Quadrant = AMST. | Amsterdam. | Mörzer Bruyns 1; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KLEIN, JOSEPH | see P. Johannes Klein. | Czech. Inv. | suggest correction | |||
| KLEIN, P. JOHANNES | Czechoslovakia, 1684-1762, MIM | Astronomical Clocks = Prague Observatory (2), DRE (1738); Quadrant, large = PRA. | Prague. | Horsky and Skopova; Zinner 1; Grötzsch 2. | suggest correction | |
| KLEINGER, F.P. | Germany, MIM | Diptych Sundial, wood and paper = LOS. | may be J.P. Kleininger. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KLEINHEMMEL, MELCHIOR | Germany, c.1550, MIM | see M.K. 1. | Annaberg. | Pippa. | suggest correction | |
| KLEININGER | Germany, 18th Century, MIM | Terrestrial Globe = RJK. | Berlin. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KLEININGER, F. | Germany, 18th Century, MIM | Pocket Sundial = Historical Society of the Tarrytowns, N.Y. | probably a misreading of J.P. Kleininger. | USNM. | suggest correction | |
| KLEININGER, F.P. | Diptych Sundial, wood and paper = LOS. | probably a misreading for J.P. Kleininger. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| KLEININGER, I.C. | see J.G. Kleininger | suggest correction | ||||
| KLEININGER, I.G. | see J.G. Kleininger. | suggest correction | ||||
| KLEININGER, J. | Germany, c.1790, MIM | Diptych Sundials, wood = Hayden Planetarium, Boston, Mass., Soth. 2/7/72, P.C. | USNM; Heger; RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| KLEININGER, J.G. | Germany, c.1775, MIM | Diptych Sundials, wood and paper = EMA, SLM, NOR, ZIT, NYM, TRA, LIE, DRE, OXF, ADL-W71, ADL-W202, etc.; Cube Sundials, wood and paper = NMM, WHI, MUN, LAW, ROM, etc. | these dials were mass-produced with printed paper scales glued to wood; they may be found in most museums. | Zinner 1; Bryden 16; Michel 3 & 9; Grötzsch 2; NMM 2; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KLEININGER, J.P. | Germany, c.1775, MIM | Diptych Sundials, wood and paper = AMST, KRM, NYM, WRAY, OXF, Schrobenhausen Stadtmuseum, Deventer Museum, etc. | very likely to be the same as J.G. Kleininger. | Zinner 1; Evans 1; Baillie 1; Mörzer Bruyns 1; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KLEIST, EWALD GEORG VON | Germany, fl.1700-48, | made an independent invention of the Leyden Jar at the same time as, or earlier than, Pieter von Musschenbroek. | G.L'E. Turner 24; A.J. Turner 10. | suggest correction | ||
| KLEMAN, A. | Holland, pre-1815, MIM NIM | compass maker. | Amsterdam. | Rooseboom 1. | suggest correction | |
| KLEMAN, H. | Holland, pre-1838, OIM | Solar Microscope = X. | son of J.M. Kleman? | Amsterdam. | Rooseboom 1. | suggest correction |
| KLEMAN, J.M., EN ZOON | Holland, fl.1793-1857 = wxy, MIM NIM OIM PHIM SIM | made a wide range of instruments including sextants, octants, quintants, circumferentors, telescopes thermometers, etc.; examples can be seen at AMST, LEY, STK, Frisian Marine Museum, RIJ, Clock Museum, Utrecht, etc. | Jan Marten Kleman; instrument makers to the King; the signature often appears as "J.M. Kleman & Zoon, Kon. Inst- Makers, Amst." | Amsterdam. | Mörzer Bruyns 1; G.L'E. Turner 24; USNM; RSW. | suggest correction |
| KLEMAN, JAN MARTEN | Holland, 1758-1845, MIM NIM OIM SIM | Microscope = Crisp Coll.; Solar Microscope,1798 = LEY; Octants = LEY, AMST; Quadrants = DRE, Osler; Surveyor's Compass = P.C.; Meridian Telescope = LEY; Sextants = STK, Koninklijk College Zeemanshoop, Amsterdam; Quintant = AMST. | fl.1781-1830; "Royal Instrument Maker and Supplier for Sea Service to King Louis Napoleon in 1808; in 1814 he received a similar title from King William 1; retired in 1830. | Amsterdam. | Crommelin 1; Van der Star 1; Rooseboom 1; Mörzer Bruyns 1 and 5; Zinner 1; Daumas 1; Michel 3; Pipping 1; USNM; Gunther 2; RSW. | suggest correction |
| KLEMM, J.M., EN ZOON | misreading of J.M. Kleman en Zoon. | Amsterdam. | USNM; RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| KLEY, JACOB | Holland, 1716-91, MIM NIM PHIM | Octants = LEY (1754), ROT, Visserijmuseum, Vlaardinger, Leiden Observatory; Astrolabe = Auction, 1798; Demonstration Models = TEY, UTR; Backstaff = AMST; Pleinschaal = AMST; Inclined Plane = X; Hadley Quadrant = Marine Museum, Horten. | a pleinschaal is a form of Gunter rule. | Rotterdam. | Rooseboom 1; Mörzer Bruyns 1, 2 and 4.; G.L'E. Turner 7; Daumas 1; Bryden 9; RSW. | suggest correction |
| KLEYSER AND CO. | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = X (2). | Goswell Street, London. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| KLIBER, U. | see Ulrich Klieber 2. | Bobinger 2; Price 2. | suggest correction | |||
| KLIEBER 1 | Germany, | see Ulrich Klieber 1, 2 and 3. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| KLIEBER 2 | Austria, 1606, MIM | Double Horizontal Sundial, 1606 = SPI-2803. | Vienna. | Nachet; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KLIEBER, TOBIAS | Germany, 1545-1618, MIM | Sundial, round, 1581 = BUD; Astronomical Compendium, 1595 = BM; Sundial = OXF; Celestial Globe, 1576 = lost; Etui for Mathematical Instruments, 1591 = AUG. | sundial is signed "T.K." 1; Evans thought he was from Gastein; son of Ulrich Klieber 2 and brother of Ulrich Klieber 3; see "T.K." 2 also. | Augsburg. | Zinner 1; Bobinger 2; Price 3; Ward 4; Evans 1; Gunther 2; Michel 1 and 3; Baillie 1; Nachet. | suggest correction |
| KLIEBER, UDALRICUS | see Ulrich Klieber 3. | Bobinger 2. | suggest correction | |||
| KLIEBER, ULRICH 1 | Germany, c.1487-1530, MIM | sundial maker. | Augsburg. | Bobinger 2. | suggest correction | |
| KLIEBER, ULRICH 2 | Germany, c.1511-62, MIM | Powder Horn with Compass and Moon Dial, 1533 = X; Sundials, 1541 = Pfalzgrafen, Otto Heinrich's schloss at Neuberg. | the instruments are mentioned in the state archives. | Augsburg. | Bobinger 2. | suggest correction |
| KLIEBER, ULRICH 3 | Germany, 1529-1606, MIM | made wide range of mathematical instruments including astronomical compendia, sundials, artillery levels, etc., ranging in date from 1554-1606; examples can be seen at KES, OXF, MUN, AUG, VIE, ADL, WHI, BEK, BUD, etc. | son of Ulrich Klieber 2; sometimes signed "Udalricus Klieber" or "V.K." 1. | Augsburg. | Bobinger 2; Zinner 1; Engelmann 1; Evans 1; Maddison 1; Michel 1 and 3; Bryden 16; Nachet; Price 2; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction |
| KLIEBER, V. | Germany, | see Ulrich Klieber 1 and 2. | Bobinger 2; Price 2. | suggest correction | ||
| KLING, E. | Austria, c.1845, PHIM | Vacuum Pump = KRA. | Vienna. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KLINGENSTIERNA, SAMUEL | Switzerland, c.1762, | mathematician; his work led to the discovery of the achromatic lens. | Nachet. | suggest correction | ||
| KLINGER UND BAUER | Germany, 1790, MIM | Celestial Globe, 1790 = DRE. | Johann Georg Klinger and Joh. Bernhard Bauer. | Nürnberg. | Grötzsch 1 and 2; RSW. | suggest correction |
| KLINGER, C. ABEL | Germany, c.1820, MIM | Terrestrial Globes, miniature = ADL-W59, Essex Institute, Salem, Mass. / Chicago Historical Society (2); Terrestrial Globes = DRE, MAN, Soth. 4/24/72, D.(1976). | D.(1976) globe is printed in Dutch. | Nürnberg. | Grötzsch 2; Garcia Franco 1; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction |
| KLINGER, J.S. | England, c.1830, MIM | Terrestrial Globe = Jewish Museum, New York, N.Y. | made miniature globes; misreading for Johann Georg Klinger? | Yonge. | suggest correction | |
| KLINGER, JOHANN GEORG | Germany, 1764-1806, MIM | Terrestrial Globes, miniature = Royal Library, Stockholm, Christie-SK 4/17/86, DRE (2) (1792), NMM (2), Grimma, Halle, Köthen, Phillips 2/2/84; Celestial Globes = DEU (1790), LOS (1796), BAU, etc; Terrestrial Globe, 5.5", 1790 = Sotheby's 5/11/94. | "Chalcogr."; see Klinger and Bauer; Grimma, Halle and Köthen are heimatmuseums; made terrestrial globe, 1790, for Andreas Steib's 1804 astronomical clock in MUN. | Nürnberg. | Grötzsch 1 and 2; NMM 2; Freiss; RSW. | suggest correction |
| KLINGERT SOHN | Germany, 1828, MIM SIM | Transit, small, 1828 = KRA. | Breslau. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KLOCKSPARGER, JOHANN | Czechoslovakia, c.1770, MIM | Scale for converting measures, circular = PRA. | Prague. | Baillie 1. | suggest correction | |
| KLOCKSPERGER, T. | Czechoslovakia, c.1690, MIM | Horizontal Sundial, silver and brass = NYM; Sundial = P. & S. 4/3/1894. | Prague. | Zinner 6; Evans 1; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KLONNE, J., AND MULLER, G. | Holland, c.1850, OIM | Microscope = LEY. | J. Klönne and G. Müller. | van der Star 1. | suggest correction | |
| KLOOS, F.J. | Holland, 19th Century, NIM | Octant, ebony and ivory = Museum Schevingen. | T.C. "Leeuhaven Wz. No.163, Manufacturer of Nautical Instruments, Coppersmith, Lamp maker." | Rotterdam. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| KLOOS, F.J., EN ZOON | Holland, 19th Century, NIM | Marine Compasses = Museum, Schevingen (2). | Rotterdam. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KLOPPENBURG, GERHARD | Germany, fl.1713-16, MIM | invented and engraved double equatorial sundials made by Gerhard Kremer. | Zinner 1; Evans 1; Wynter and Turner; Michel 3; Cousins; RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| KNABE | Germany, 18th Century, MIM | Table Sundial = DAR. | Darmstadt. | Zinner 6. | suggest correction | |
| KNABE, C.E. | Germany, MIM | Perpetual Calendar = BM (lost). | Grünsstadt. | Price 3; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KNACHERGAARD, N.P. | Denmark, post-1827, MIM PHIM | Stick Barometer = Den Gamle By, Aarhus. | meteorologist and clockmaker. | Aalborg. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| KNAUSTINUS, HEINRICH | Germany, 1578, MIM | Astrolabe, 1578 = MUN (ICA-3027). | maker or owner? | Zinner 1; ICA 2. | suggest correction | |
| KNEBEL, F. | Holland, fl.1816-27, MIM | Astronomical Clocks = LEY (1816), Klokkenmuseum, Zaanse Schans, Utrecht Observatory (2). | made chronometers. | Amsterdam. | Mörzer Bruyns 2. | suggest correction |
| KNIBB, JOHN | England, c.1673, MIM | Astronmical Clock = X. | brother of Joseph Knibb and cousin of Samuel Knibb; apprenticed to William Sutton in the Joiners' Company on Nov. 4, 1664; free of the Company, 1673, in Oxford; took apprentices in Oxford. | Oxford. | Crawforth 7. | suggest correction |
| KNIBB, JOSEPH | England, fl.1670-89, MIM | brother of John Knibb and cousin of Samuel Knibb; admitted to the Clockmakers' Company by Redemption in 1670; served as assistant in the Company in 1689. | London. | Robischon. | suggest correction | |
| KNIBB, SAMUEL | England, fl.1663-74, MIM | see Sutton and Knibb, who in 1664 cooperated to make Morland's trigonometrical machines, now at KEN and FLO; he finished the FLO machine in 1666 after Sutton's death. | Threadneedle Street, London. | Taylor 1(297); Bonelli 1; Michel 3; G.L'E. Turner 24; Clay and Court; A.J. Turner 10. | suggest correction | |
| KNIE, BALTHAZAR | Germany; Scotland, fl.1743-1817, PHIM | Angle Barometers = X, Soth. 7/19/88 (1787), Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, City of Gloucester Museum, P.C., RSM, KEN, etc; Stick Barometers = Hopetoun House, Edinburgh, Christie-SK 9/11/86, RSM, D.; Double Barometer, 1800 = RSM; Wheel Barometers = X, P.C.; Barometer, 1778 = Traquair House; | used thermometers by Charles Moliner; signed "Mr. Knie" (1800), "Knie, Edin.", "Balthasar Knie", "Baltasar Kinny." | second door above Mr. Scyth, facing Niddry's Wynd (1776); near Mr. Scyth (1776); opposite the Guard (1782-90); nearly opposite the Guard, High Street (1789); opposite Forrestets Wynd Well (1793-98); Head Seller's Close (1800-03); Lawnmarket (1805-10); 405 Lawnmarket (1811-14); Borthwick's Close (1815); all in Edinburgh. | Goodison 1, 5; Bryden 3, 10; Morrison-Low 1; RSW; McConnell 1. | suggest correction |
| KNIGHT 1 | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | Braintree. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| KNIGHT 2 | England, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = X. | London. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | |
| KNIGHT 3 | England?, c.1775, PHIM | Wheel Barometer = Sales Cat.(1975). | possibly Charles Knight. | Dunmow. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| KNIGHT, CHARLES | England, c.1800, PHIM | barometer maker. | Baillie 1. | suggest correction | ||
| KNIGHT, F.C., AND CO. | USA, fl..1894-1923, MIM SIM | Transits = X (2). | Frank Campion Knight. | Philadelphia, PA. | Miller. | suggest correction |
| KNIGHT, FRANK CAMPION | USA, 1856-1923, MIM SIM | claimed to be the successor to Edmund Draper. | 402 Locust, Philadelphia, Pa. (1894-95). | Smart 1; Miller. | suggest correction | |
| KNIGHT, GEORGE | England, pre-1840, PHIM | Chemical Retort = OXF; Balance = Christie 10/31/67. | signed "Knight Foster Lane." | Foster Lane, London. | G.L'E. Turner 24; RSW. | suggest correction |
| KNIGHT, GEORGE, AND CO. | England, fl.1850-58, MIM PHIM | won a prize in the Great Exhibition of London in 1851. | 2 Foster Lane, Cheapside, London. | Chaldecott 3; RGO. | suggest correction | |
| KNIGHT, GEORGE, AND SONS | England, fl.1840-62, MIM PHIM | Chemical Balance = OXF. | T.C.; see R. and G. Knight; see George Knight. | 2 Foster Lane, Cheapsides, London. | G.L'E. Turner 24; RSW; Chaldecott 3; RGO. | suggest correction |
| KNIGHT, GOWIN | England, 1713-72, MIM NIM | Instrument = OXF; Compass Cards = Uring Sale 6/16/1773 (3). | Dr. Gowin Knight; developed and improved a compass in 1745; patented it in 1766; F.R.S.; T.C.; author. | Lincoln's Inn Fields, Crane Court, Fleet Street, London. | Taylor 2(278); DNB; G.L'E. Turner 24; Calvert 2; Schück; RSW. | suggest correction |
| KNIGHT, JOHN | England, fl.1812-35, PHIM | made barometers, watches and clocks. | Mill End, Thaxted. | Bell 2. | suggest correction | |
| KNIGHT, R. AND G. | England, fl.1811-20, MIM PHIM SIM | Inclinometer = STT. | Richard and George Knight. | No. 41 Foster Lane (1811); Foster Lane, Cheapsides (1816); both in London. | Pipping 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| KNIGHT, RICHARD | England, | see R. and G. Knight. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| KNIGHT, T. | England, PHIM | made barometers. | Stone. | Bell 2. | suggest correction | |
| KNIGHTS, JAMES | England, 1739, MIM | Hodometer, 1739 = KEN. | Ipswich. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KNIP, GEREIT | Holland, c.1750, MIM | Planetarium with clockworks = DRE. | Amsterdam. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction | |
| KNITTEL, GEORG FRANZ | Czechoslovakia, fl.1683-90, MIM | Universal Ring Sundials = PRA (1683), BEK (1685); Level, 1690 = DEU. | Prague. | Zinner 1; Evans 1; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KNITTEL, JOH. WILHELM | Czechoslovakia, 1701, MIM | Universal Ring Sundial, 1701 = ROM. | Prague. | Zinner 1; Bonelli 4; Bedini 12; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KNITTL, FRANZ ANTON | Austria, 1671-1744, MIM PHIM SIM | Mechanical Equatorial Sundials = BAM (1713), KRM (1713), Linz Stadt Sammlung (1713), NMM, KRM, LIN, KEN (2), etc.; Burning Glass, 1716 = Lambach Stift; Horizontal Sundials = LIN, NOR (2), NMM, CZJ, AMST, KEN, POR; Compasses, 1714 = X (2); Surveying Instruments, 1721 = Lambach Stift. | father of Franz Jacob Knittl; Evans noted a ring sundial, 1685, at Kunst und Gewerbe Museum, Berlin. | Kremsmünster; Linz. | Zinner 1; Baillie 1; Evans 1; Michel 3; Mörzer Bruyns 1; NMM 2; Portaluppi; Wynter and Turner; Wynter 1; W. Eckhardt 3; RSW. | suggest correction |
| KNITTL, FRANZ JACOB | Austria, 1729-70, MIM | Table Sundials = NMM (1753), SLM (1754), Linz Museum Depot aus Hohenfurth (1751). | son of Franz Anton Knittl; see also "F.J.K.S.J." | Linz. | Zinner 1; NMM 2. | suggest correction |
| KNITTL, JOH. WILHELM | Czechoslovakia, 1701, MIM | Sundial, 1701 = ROM. | Prague. | Bedini 12; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KNOTT, ROBERT | England, 1683, MIM | apprenticed to Clement Forster of the Clockmakers' Company on Jan. 29, 1683. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
| KNOWLES, JEFFREY | England, PHIM | Stick Barometer = X. | Goodison 1. | suggest correction | ||
| KNOX AND SHAIN 1 | USA, fl.1855-76, MIM SIM | Surveying Vernier Compass = P.C.; Transits = U. of North Dakota, D.(1983). | Joseph Knox and Charles J. Shain; also made levels. | 461/2 Walnut Street (1855); 716 Chestnut Street (1856-76); both in Philadelphia, Pa. | Smart 1; Coffeen C; RSW. | suggest correction |
| KNOX AND SHAIN 2 | USA, fl.1878-91, MIM | Henry M. Knox and Charles J. Shain. | 716 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. | Smart 1. | suggest correction | |
| KNOX, HENRY M. | USA, fl.1878-91, MIM | see Knox and Shain 2. | 716 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. | Smart 1. | suggest correction | |
| KNOX, JOSEPH | USA, 1805-77, MIM SIM | see Knox and Shain 1; see Draper and Knox. | 7 Plum Street (1829-37); 72 Dock Street (1851); both in Philadelphia, Pa. | Smart 1. | suggest correction | |
| KNYFF, LEONARD | England, c.1730, | apprenticed to Thomas Heath 1 in the Grocers' Company, 1730; his father may have been the topographer of the same name. | J. Brown 1; Tooley 1. | suggest correction | ||
| KOCH | Germany, OIM | Microscope = NOR. | Berlin. | Fürst. | suggest correction | |
| KOCH, BARTHOLOME | Austria, 18th Century, MIM | Inclinable Sundial = OXF; Augsburg-type Sundials = Drecker Coll. = P.C., Christie 4/3/85; Horizontal Sundials = Christie 4/18/1899, P.B. 1/22/54, P. & S. 5/20/1895, Koller 11/17/75. | Vienna. | Zinner 1; Maddison 5; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KOCH, F.L. | Germany, fl.1749-63, MIM SIM | Horizontal Sundial, with case = MUN; Level, 1749 = SWE; Level = STT; Laterna Magica = STT; Graphometer, 1763 = DOR. | graphometer signed "Koch Berlin." | Berlin. | Pipping 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| KOCH, H. | Germany, 1751, MIM SIM | Graphometer, 1751 = CZO. | Berlin. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KOCH, HANS | Germany, fl.1554-1603, MIM | made sundials; see "H.K." 1 and 5. | Zinner 1; Michel 3; Boursier; RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| KOCH, HANS HINRICH | ?, c.1776, | owner of Leverton Hadley quadrant. | Apenrade. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KOCH, I.(T.) L. | Germany, 1775, MIM | Sector, 1755 = PRZ. | see J.L. Koch. | Berlin. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| KOCH, J.L. | Germany, 1742, MIM OIM | Culpeper-type Microscope = NOR; Sectors = NOR, OXF (1742). | related to Johann Koch 1 and K. Koch. | Berlin. | Pipping 1; Maddison; RSW. | suggest correction |
| KOCH, JOHANN 1 | Austria; Germany; Swedenfl.1650-79, MIM | Horizontal Sundial, 1650 = P. & S. 3/8/1895; Horizontal Sundials, 1665 & 1672 = NOR; Horizontal Sundials = NOR, KEN; Diptych Sundial = NOR; Artillery Level = MADEX-369; Sundial = SKO. | instrument and clock maker; J.K. Koch and K. Koch are descendants. | Vienna; Berlin; Stockholm (1665-79). | Zinner 1; Pipping 1; Baillie 1; MADEX; Sidenbladh; Maddison; RSW. | suggest correction |
| KOCH, JOHANN 2 | Austria, 1755, MIM | Sundial, 1755 = X; Universal Ring Dial = Kühnelt Coll., Innsbruck; Horizontal Sundial = VAA. | Vienna. | Zinner 6; Basserman-Jordan 2. | suggest correction | |
| KOCH, K. | Germany, 1763, MIM SIM | Graphometer, 1763 = DOR; Table Sundials = MUN, WRAY-39. | related to Johann Koch 1 and J.L. Koch. | Berlin. | Zinner 1; Price 2; Maddison; RSW. | suggest correction |
| KOCH, MARTIN | Germany, c.1700, MIM | Analemmatic Table Sundial = GRA. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction | ||
| KOCH, RASMUS | Denmark, fl.1765-72, NIM | Crown Compass = AMST; Compass Cards = SFM (1765), X (1772). | X also marked "R.K." | Copenhagen. | Mörzer Bruyns 1; Schück; RSW. | suggest correction |
| KOCHANSKI, ADAM ADAMANTY | Poland, 1631-1700, MIM | Triple Wall Sundial, 1680 = Palace, Wilanow. | designed by Hevelius. | Warsaw. | Maddison 7. | suggest correction |
| KOCHLER | Germany, MIM | String-gnomon Sundial = Delft Sundial Exhibition (1984). | signed on paper compass rose. | Stuttgart. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| KOCK, BARTHOL. | see Bartholme Koch. | Christie 4/18/1899. | suggest correction | |||
| KOCKS, JOHANNES H. | Holland, 1761-1849, OIM PHIM | made microscopes and philosophical instruments for van Musschenbroek. | The Hague. | Crommelin 1; Rooseboom 1; USNM. | suggest correction | |
| KODANER | see Kodauer. | Hamilton 1. | suggest correction | |||
| KODAUER, JOSEPH | Germany?, 18th Century, MIM | Horizontal Sundial = P. and S. 3/8/1895; Equatorial Sundials = P. and S. 3/20/1896 and 5/19/1896, D.(1974), PRA, LAW, MERC, Soth. 4/22/65; Butterfield-type Sundial = OXF. | MERC signed "Josephus Kodaner." | Carlsbad. | Zinner 1; Evans 1; Hamilton 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| KOEDIJK, ENGELB | Holland, c.1817, MIM OIM PHIM | Kalverstraat bij de Bagijnenhofsteeg, Amsterdam. | Mörzer Bruyns 2. | suggest correction | ||
| KOENIG, KARL RUDOLPH | Germany; France, 1832-1901, MIM PHIM | Set of Helmholtz Resonators = TEY. | physicist from Königsberg, studied under Helmholtz; moved to Paris in 1851; apprenticed to the violin maker Vuillaume until 1858; made acoustical apparatus thereafter; won gold medal in 1862. | Königsberg; Paris (1851). | G.L'E. Turner 7 & 24; Poggendorff; USNM. | suggest correction |
| KOERNER | Germany, c.1810, OIM | Telescope = CZJ. | Weimar. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KOGLER, IGNATIUS | c.1744, MIM | Equatorial Armillary Sphere = Peking Observatory. | Ignatius Kögler. | Michel 3; Needham? | suggest correction | |
| KOGLER, JEREMIAS | Poland, 1634-88, MIM PHIM | Compass, 1634 = KRM; Sectors = ADL-M87 (1688), KRA (1664), Neusing Coll. and Academy of Science, Gdansk (1668). | Kögler; sometimes spelled "Kegeler." | Danzig. | Zinner 1; Engelmann 1; Michel 3; Polish Inv.; Daumas 1; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction |
| KOHL, MAX | Germany, c.1880, MIM | Electrostatic Machines = D.(1971), A.-P. 3/15/76. | "Mechaniker." | Chemnitz. | Moskowitz 103. | suggest correction |
| KOHLER, A. | Sweden, c.1850, MIM SIM | A. Köhler; made surveyor's planimeters; probably a clockmaker. | Visby. | Pipping 1. | suggest correction | |
| KOHLER, CHRISTOPH | Germany, fl.1663-80, MIM SIM | Graphometers = KEN (1663), DRE; Table Sundial, 1677 = KEN; Diptych Sundials, round = MERC, DRE; Augsburg-type Sundial, 1680 = Merc-30; Artillery Levels = DRE (lost) (1699), MUN; Astronomical Compendium = P.C. (1969); Diptych Sundials = Markisches Museum (1766), Lempertz 6/14/76. | Christoph Köhler; Augsburg-type has perpetual calendar on 1b and is signed "Dresten fecit Fluss Köhler"; DRE graphometer has 3" radius. | Dresden. | Zinner 1; Gunther 2; Price 2; Daumas 1; Hamilton 1 & 2; RSW. | suggest correction |
| KOHLER, FLUSS | misreading for Christoph Köhler. | Hamilton 1 & 2. | suggest correction | |||
| KOHN | RussiaMIM | Thermometer = D.(1970). | both Fahrenheit and Réaumur scales. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KOLESCH AND CO. | USA, MIM SIM | Surveyor's Level = GUR. | New York City. | USNM. | suggest correction | |
| KOLL, BERNHART | Germany, 1569, MIM | member of the compass maker guild; Master in 1569. | Nürnberg. | Gouk 1. | suggest correction | |
| KOLNEP, W. | Germany, OIM | Microscope = P.C. | Berlin. | Padgitt. | suggest correction | |
| KOLOMET, MENDEL SCHAFFER | MIM | Watch Dial with Compass = P. & S. 2/28/1896. | Kolomet may be a town. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KOLWEIN, M. | Austria, 17th Century, MIM | Table Sundial = KEN-1880/40. | see Mathias Kulwein. | Vienna. | Zinner 1; Michel 3. | suggest correction |
| KONIG, D. | Switzerland, MIM | Meridian Sundial = ROM-7863. | Berne. | Bonelli 4. | suggest correction | |
| KONIG, GOTTFRIED | Germany, MIM | Universal Horizontal Sundial = Koller 11/17/75. | König. | Hildburghausen. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| KONST, R. | Holland, c.1775, MIM | Astrolabe = LEY. | Rooseboom 1. | suggest correction | ||
| KOOGIES, JAN | see Jan Koogje. | Rooseboom 1; RSW. | suggest correction | |||
| KOOGJE, JAN | Holland, c.1725, MIM | Planetariums, miniature = LEY, Soth. 12/17/62 = P.C. (1969). | clockmaker | Wormerveer. | Rooseboom 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| KOOPS, B. | Holland, c.1800, OIM | Solar Microscope = LEY. | Rooseboom 1. | suggest correction | ||
| KOPPELLAR | Austria, PHIM | Barometer = KRA. | Vienna. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KOPSEN AND CO. | Australia, NIM | Marine Compass = American Art Galleries, Chicago 3/18/75. | Sydney. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KORDENBUSCH, G.F. | Germany, 1773, MIM | Plotting Scale, 1773 = OXF. | "Math. P. Pa." | Nürnberg. | Evans 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| KORISTKA, F. | Italy, c.1850, OIM | Microscope = DRE. | Milan. | Grötzsch 2; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KORN, HARTMAN | Germany, 1664, MIM | Sundial, circular, with calendar, 1664 = OXF. | associated with John Korne? | Zinner 1; Taylor 1(521); Dewhirst; Baillie 1; Evans 1; Michel 3. | suggest correction | |
| KORNE, JOHN | England, c.1700, OIM | Telescope = NMM. | associated with Hartman Korn? | Taylor 1(521); Evans 1; NMM 2. | suggest correction | |
| KORNER, FRIEDRICH | Germany, c.1824, | Körner; invented a barometer, thermometer, air pump, and balance; author; had Carl Zeiss as an apprentice, c.1830. | Jena. | Pipping 1; Middleton 1; Dawsons 205. | suggest correction | |
| KOSBU, F. | Germany, c.1850, NIM | Octant = AMST; Compass = X. | the last letter in Kosbu has a line over it. | Hamburg. | Schück 2; Mörzer Bruyns 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| KOSTENBADER, GEORG | Germany, c.1588, MIM | Astrolabe Clock = Chateau de Gaesbeek, Belgium. | see G.K.B. | Zinner 1; Price 2; Michel 2. | suggest correction | |
| KOSTER, ANTON | Germany, 18th Century, MIM | Augsburg-type Sundial = Lienz Heimatmuseum. | Köster; crude work. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction | |
| KOSTKOWEGO | Poland, | invented a type of polyhedral sundial. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| KRABBE, JOHANN | Germany, 1553-1616, MIM NIM | Astrolabes, brass = STO (1579) (ICA-529), D.(1972), Fort Caroline Nat'l Memorial, Fla. (1582) (ICA-581) (NMM-3); Astrolabes, paper = OXF (1583) (ICA-276), LUN (1583) (ICA-612); Nocturnal, 1583 = ROM; Diptych Sundial, 1583 = ZUR; Regiomontanus Sundial, 1584 = NMM-D.228; Mathematical Instrument (1586); Globe (1583). | author; he wrote that his planispheric astrolabes were intended for mariners; the Fort Caroline astrolabe is considered a mariner's astrolabe; NMM is the National Maritime Museum Registry of Mariner's Astrolabes; geometer to Henricus Julius, Bishop of Halberstadt, Duke of Brunswick and Luneburg. | Minden; Wolfenbüttel. | Zinner 1; Michel 1, 2 and 3; Gunther 1 and 2; Price 1; ICA 2; Waters 1; NMM 2; MADEX; Stimson 3; RSW; Debeauvais 1. | suggest correction |
| KRAFFT, FRIEDRICH | Germany, c.1500, MIM | made an astrolabe. | Nürnberg. | Lunardi. | suggest correction | |
| KRAFT, C.E. | Austria, c.1790, MIM NIM | Protractors = DRE, PRZ; Sextant, miniature = WHI-817. | Vienna. | Grötzsch 2; Dewhirst; RSW; J.A. Bennett 2. | suggest correction | |
| KRAFT, E., UND SOHN | Austria, MIM SIM | Rule = TRE; Compass = P.C. (1969); Mining Compass = P.C.(1987). | Vienna. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KRANENBORG, LAMBERTUS DERKS | Holland, fl.1773-74, MIM | Sundials = Loppersum (1773), Hoogezand (1774). | Loppersum; Hoogezand. | Rooseboom 1. | suggest correction | |
| KRANER, CHRISTOPH | Austria, 1641, MIM SIM | Plane Table Compass, 1641 = VIE. | Innsbruck. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction | |
| KRANEWELTER, JACOB | 1755, MIM | Evans 1. | suggest correction | |||
| KRAP | Holland, c.1830, OIM | Telescope = AMST. | see Krap en van den Brink; see Arbon en Krap. | Rotterdam. | Mörzer Bruyns 1 & 2; NAMUR. | suggest correction |
| KRAP EN VAN DEN BRINK | Holland, c.1830, OIM | Telescope = AMST. | Rotterdam. | Mörzer Bruyns 1 & 2. | suggest correction | |
| KRAPP, JOHANN | Germany, c.1790, PHIM | Barometers, recording = DEU (2). | Mannheim. | Middleton 1. | suggest correction | |
| KRATZENSTEIN, BRUNO | USA, c.1850 ?, MIM OIM SIM | Surveyor's Compass, with telescope = P.C. | Chicago, Ill. | USNM. | suggest correction | |
| KRATZER, NICHOLAS | Germany; England; Belgium1486-1550, MIM | Polyhedral Sundial = Corpus Christi College, Oxf.(pre-1624); Garden Sundials = Corpus Christi College, St. Mary's Church, Oxford. | mathematical instrument maker to Henry VIII; there is a portrait of Kratzer by Hans Holbein. | Munich; Oxford; Antwerp; London. | Zinner 1; Taylor 1(1); Maddison 1; Gunther 2; Michel 3; DNB; Dewhirst; RSW. | suggest correction |
| KRAUS, JOHANN PAUL | Germany, 17th Century, MIM | Table Sundial = BM. | signed "Johann Paul Kraus Fürstle : Max : Liechtenstein: Hoffmeister fecit"and marked "J.G. Gutwein sculpsit." | Zinner 1; Price 3; Ward 4. | suggest correction | |
| KRAUSLER, MATHIAS KARL | Austria, 1691, MIM | Polyhedral Sundial, 1691 = Vorau Stift. | Pöllau in Steirmark. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction | |
| KRAUSS, JOHANN THOMAS | Germany, 1751, MIM | Protractor, glass, 1751 = AUG. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| KRAUWINCKEL, HANS | Germany, 1580-1610, MIM | Nürnberg Counter = USNM. | Nürnberg. | USNM. | suggest correction | |
| KREBS | see Nicholaus de Cusa. | Nachet. | suggest correction | |||
| KREICH, JOACHIM | Germany, 1598-99, MIM SIM | Surveying Instrument, 1599 = DEU; Alidade with compass, 1598 = PRA; Triangulation Instrument, 1599 = NUR. | Weimar. | Zinner 1; Evans 1; Czech. Inv.; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KREITTMAYER, GEORG | Germany, 1660, MIM | Armillary Sphere, 1660 = X. | Munich. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction | |
| KREMBER | Holland, MIM | Augsburg-type Sundial = P. and S. 6/18/1894. | also signed "gentifori"; probably Philip Kremser which see. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KREMER, GERHARD | Germany, fl.1713-16, MIM | Double Equatorial Sundials = Bourgeois Sale, Cologne, 1902 = TIM, Christie 4/9/75 (1714), LEI. | made sundials invented and engraved by Gerhard Kloppenburg which see. | Zinner 1; Evans 1; Michel 3; Cousins; Wynter and Turner; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KREMSER, PHILIP | Holland, 1781, MIM | Table Sundial, string-gnomon = MUN; Table Sundial, 1781 = GRA. | for 46°30' latitude. | Cenifori (Genifori?). | Zinner 1 and 6; Price 2; Evans 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| KRES, ALBAN | Germany, MIM | Rule, folding, with hinged bars at ends = ULM. | Ulm. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KRIECKEL, G.F. | MIM | Artillery Rule = STU; Rule = THO. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| KRIEGSEISEN, MATHIAS | 17th Century, PHIM | made demonstration instruments. | Nachet. | suggest correction | ||
| KRIGNER, SALOMON | Poland; Germany, c.1694, MIM SIM | Augsburg-type Sundials with cams = DRE, SWE, ROS = FIN, P.C., OXF, KRA, PRZ, THO; Equatorial Sundials = NYC, STT, CZJ, EMA, Drecker Coll.; Graphometer, 1694 = DRE. | most Augsburg-types are oval. | Warsaw; Marienbad. | Zinner 1; Grötzsch 2; Pipping 1; Michel 3; Pryzpkowski 1; DES; Körber 1; Syndram; RSW. | suggest correction |
| KRITTL, JOHANN WILHELM | Czechoslovakia, | misreading for Knittel. | Bonelli 4. | suggest correction | ||
| KRUGNER, AL. CR. | Germany, MIM | Equatorial Sundial, with cam = P. & S. 3/8/1895 = Drecker Coll.? | is this a horrible rendering of Salomon Krigner? | Marienberg. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| KRUINCS | misreading for Kruines. | P. & S. 2/9/1897. | suggest correction | |||
| KRUINES | France, fl.1800-22, MIM OIM | Cannon Sundials = P. & S. 5/19/1896 and 2/9/1897; Telescope = Gersaint, Nantes 10/28/88. | "Opticien"; Gersaint also marked "Quai de l'Horloge." | au Télescope, Enclos Saint-Denis de la Chartre; 41 Quai de l'Horloge; 61 bis, Quai de l'Horloge (1807); all in Paris. | Nachet; Dewhirst; RSW. | suggest correction |
| KRUINES, VEUVE | France, c.1822, MIM OIM | carried on her husband's shop; maker (?). | Paris. | Nachet. | suggest correction | |
| KRUINES-RAMBAUD | France, MIM | Instrument = Musée Lombard, Geneva. | 21 Quai de l'Horloge, Paris. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KRULT, E., UND SOHN | Austria, MIM | Compass = Technical Museum, Warsaw. | Vienna. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KRUSE, ABRAHAM | Germany, c.1796, PHIM | Coin Balances = HAK, DRE, D.(1982). | the balances in Dresden and with the dealer are marked "Schwelm in der graffshaft Mark 1796." | Schynelium, Westfalia. | USNM; Coffeen III; RSW. | suggest correction |
| KRUSE, J. MELCHIOR | Germany, 18th Century, PHIM | Gold Balance = Libert et Castor 4/28/82; Coin Balances = Christie 4/3/85, Koller 11/17/75. | the gold balances are marked "Goldwafenmacher und Eichmeister." | Elberfeld. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| KUBEL, EDWARD | Germany; USA, 1820-96, MIM PHIM SIM | Theodolites = USNM, D.(1987); Siderostat = USNM; Gravity Pendulum = USNM; Dividing Engine = Alpha Instrument Co., Washington, D.C. | Kübel; worked primarily for the U.S. Government. | Bayreuth, Bavaria (pre-1849); Washington, D.C. | Smart 1; USNM; Coffeen 15.. | suggest correction |
| KUBISCH | MIM | Diptych Sundial, ivory = MLL. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| KUBITSCHEK | Austria, c.1800, PHIM | Hygrometer = DRE. | Vienna. | Grötzsch 2; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KUEBLER AND SEELHORST | USA, c.1850?, MIM SIM | Surveying Transit = GUR. | Philadelphia, Pa. | Smart 1; USNM. | suggest correction | |
| KUGSBERG, AUGUST | NIM | Crown Compass = STK. | the first letter in Kugsberg may be different. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KUHLMANN, G. CH. | Germany, MIM | Alidade = D.(1971). | Kühlmann. | Colmar. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| KUHLMANN, IN. BIN. | MIM | Protractor = D.(1972). | Roux Devilas 73. | suggest correction | ||
| KUHNEL, PAUL | USA, c.1850?, MIM | Pair of Globes = X. | New York, N.Y. | USNM. | suggest correction | |
| KUILE, COENRAAD TER | Holland, 1781-1852, MIM | made a tellurium and a lunarium. | Enschede. | Rooseboom 1. | suggest correction | |
| KULICK, MATHIAS | England, c.1782, | apprenticed to Thomas Garrard 1 in the Grocers' Company, 1782. | J. Brown 1. | suggest correction | ||
| KULIVIN | Russia, 1772, | invented electrical machine, 1772; Academy of Science. | RSW. | suggest correction | ||
| KULL AND DOWNING | England, PHIM | Marine Barometer = OMM. | "London." | London. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| KULLBERG, VICTOR | England, 1824-90, NIM | made self-registering marine compasses, or course indicators; made chronometers and watches. | 105 Liverpool Road; 12 Cloudesley Terrace; both in London. | USNM; G.L'E. Turner 24; J.A. Bennett 2. | suggest correction | |
| KULLSTROM, J.J. | Sweden, fl.1830-60, PHIM | Stick Barometer = NOR. | Kullström. | Stora Glasbruksgaten 8, Stockholm. | RSW. | suggest correction |
| KULWEIN, MATHIAS | Germany, MIM | Ring Sundial = MUN. | see M. Kolwein. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction | |
| KUMMER, K.W. | Germany, 1836, MIM | Terrestrial Globe, 1836 = DRE. | Berlin. | Grötzch 1 & 2; Drechsler 2; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KUNIG, ARNOLD | France, fl.1481-1500, MIM | thought to have made an astrolabe, 1481, now in the Musée de Rohan, Strasbourg. | Strasbourg. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction | |
| KUNINGNANT, M. | France?, c.1660, MIM SIM | Circumferentor = ADL-M155. | marked "Ingénieur." | Engelmann 1; Michel 3; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KUNN, ANTON | Austria, c.1810, PHIM | Balance = ADL-M405. | Anton Künn. | Vienna. | Engelmann 1; ADL; RSW. | suggest correction |
| KURFURST VON SACHSEN, AUGUST J. | Germany, | see August J. Kurfürst von Sachsen. | Zinner 1. | suggest correction | ||
| KURZ, CHRISTIAN ADAM, UND SOHN FRANZ | Germany, 1700, MIM | Inclinable Sundial, 1700 = P. & S. 11/21/1894. | Reutlingen. | RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KUTSCH | France, c.1792, MIM PHIM | Rules = CNAM; Balance = CNAM; Triangular Rule, wood = Berzelius Museum (SWE). | made comparators. | Cons. Nat'l 1; Destombes 4; Daumas 1; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KUTZ AND ADAMS | USA, fl.1834-36, MIM | rule makers; surely Erasmus A. Kutz 1. | 300 Broadway, New York, N.Y. (1834-36). | USNM; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KUTZ, ERASMUS A. 1 | England; USA, 1778-1856, MIM NIM SIM | Surveyor's Compasses = GUR/ Onandaga Hist. Soc., Syracuse, N.Y./ Crestline Hist. Soc.,Ohio, Conn. Hist. Soc., Hartford, Western Reserve Hist. Soc., Cleveland, Ohio; Compass = Cornell University, N.Y.; Sextant = Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Museum, Inc., Va.; Shoe Measure = USNM; Yardstick = USNM; Octants = P.C. (2). | Kutz was primarily a rule maker; T.C.; George Bracher in England made telescopes for Kutz. | 343 Water Street (1818-19); 248 Water Street (1821); 151 Water Street (1822); 172 Water Street (1824-27); 164 Water Sreet (1828-35); 180 Water Street (1835-36 & 1842-43); all in New York, N.Y. | Smart 1; Bedini 8; O'Mara; Brewington 1; Taylor 2(1496); D.J. Warner 10; USNM; RSW. | suggest correction |
| KUTZ, ERASMUS A. 2 | USA, 1822-68, MIM SIM | Surveyor's Compass = D.(1973). | signed "E.A. Kutz (son)"; rule maker. | 2 Stanton (1839-40); 117 Madison (1850-51); 91 Monroe Street (1856); all in New York, N.Y. | Smart 1; Moskowitz 106. | suggest correction |
| KUTZ, FREDERICK | USA, fl.1827-30, MIM | rule maker. | 55 Orange (1827-28); 395 Broome (1829); both in New York, N.Y. | USNM. | suggest correction | |
| KUTZ, THOMAS | USA, fl.1829-30, MIM | rule maker. | 107 Mott (1829); Mott at N. Walker (1830); both in New York, N.Y. | USNM. | suggest correction | |
| KUTZ, THOMAS E. | USA, fl.1823-27, MIM | 86 Reed (1823); Nassau, corner of John (1824); 51 Roosevelt (1825); 61 Vesey (1826-27); all in New York, N.Y. | USNM. | suggest correction | ||
| KUYPER, GERHARD | Holland, c.1775, PHIM | made a new type of electrical machine with Van Marum. | Groningen. | Rooseboom 1. | suggest correction | |
| KWIDZYNIA, MIKOLAJ WODKA | Poland, 1442-94, MIM | Sundial = Cathedral, Wloclawek. | professor of astronomy at the University of Bologna. | Polish Inventory. | suggest correction | |
| KYFFIN, EDWARD | England, c.1682, MIM | apprenticed by turnover on Nov. 30, 1682 to John Brown 1 of the Clockmakers' Company. | J. Brown 3. | suggest correction | ||
| KYN, JAMES | England, fl.1593-1727, MIM | Sundial, ivory, 1593 = X Coll.; Sundial = RSM. | the dial in the X Coll. is for 52° and marked "Made for T.B." (1); the dial in the RSM is signed "Kynius." | Dewhirst; Clay and Court; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KYNAST, J.F. | Germany, c.1700, MIM | Horizontal Sundial = Drecker Coll. = P.C.(1969). | also marked "I.F.F." | Zinner 1; RSW. | suggest correction | |
| KYNFIN, JAMES | England, fl.1569-1610, MIM | Astrolabe, 1597 = FLO; Astronomical Compendium, 1593 = BM; Geometrical Compass, 1595 = FLO-2516; Graduated Circle, 1595 = FLO-435; Theodolite base, 1597 = FLO-3174. | also signed as "James Kenvyn", "Jacobus Kynvin"; made instruments for Sir Robert Dudley; made Blagrave's "Mathematical Jewel" and "Familiar Staff." | near Powles (St. Paul's Cathedral), London. | Taylor 1(73); G.L'E. Turner 26; Gatty; Gunther 4; Dewhirst; Bonelli 2; Price 1 & 3; Ward 4; ICA 2; Evans 1; RSW. | suggest correction |
| KYNIUS | see James Kyn. | Dewhirst. | suggest correction | |||
| KYNVIN | see Kynfin. | suggest correction | ||||
| KYNVYN | see Kynfin. | suggest correction | ||||
| KYNWIN | see Kynfin. | suggest correction | ||||
| KYRRHESTES, ANDRONIKOS | Macedonia, c.75 B.C., MIM | Sundial = Tenos; Tower of the Winds = Athens. | Gibbs 1; Price 13. | suggest correction |
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