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| Signature | Maker Info | Instruments | Comments | Location | References |
| CARTWRIGHT AND SON | England, c.1840, OIM PHIM | Stick Barometer with Thermometer = Soth.-Bearne 4/4/78. | see C. Cartwright and Son. | Preston. | RSW. |
| CARTWRIGHT, C., AND SON | England, c.1840, OIM PHIM | Student's Microscope = Soth. 6/8/70. | Preston. | RSW. | |
| CHADBURN AND WRIGHT | England, c.1830, OIM | Achromatic Telescope = D. | 40 Nursery Street; The Wicker; both in Sheffield. | Goodison 1; Taylor 2(1509); RSW. | |
| GILBERT AND WRIGHT | England, fl.1790-92, 1802-05, MIM NIM OIM PHIM | Sextants = NMM-S.36 (1791), MYS, P-B 9/25/69, Gersaint, La Rochelle 7/20/96; Octant = MYS; Instrument = KEN; Telescopes = Soth. 10/15/73, DRE, CZO, D.(1974),(1978); Pantograph = Christie -SK 7/10/80; Dry Compass = NMM-C.11; Prospect Glass = D.(1978). | first John Gilbert 2 and later William Gilbert 2 working with George Wright 2; sextants are marked "King's Patent"; sold Wright's new improved celestial globes. | 148 Leadenhall Street, Navigation Warehouse, London. | J. Brown 1; Price 2; Taylor 2(839); USNM; NMM 2; Moskowitz 109; Coffeen E; RSW. |
| GILBERT, WRIGHT AND HOOKE | England, fl.1794-1805, MIM OIM | Telescopes = D.(1975), D.(1979); Magnetic Compass = Christie-SK 9/11/86; Sextant = OXF. | the "Gilbert" is first, John Gilbert 2, later, William Gilbert 2; the Wright is George Wright 2; sextant marked "King's Patent." | 148 Leadenhall Street, Navigation Warehouse, London. | Taylor 2(839); Moskowitz 109; G.L'E. Turner 24; RSW. |
| GREGORY AND WRIGHT | England, fl.1783-89, MIM NIM OIM PHIM | Drawing Instrument = Christie 4/3/74; Hadley's Quadrant = NMM-S.179; Universal Microscope = X; Spyglasses = Soth. 7/24/72, NMM-O.131/44; Telescope, one-draw = Phillips 7/28/82. | Henry Gregory and George Wright 2; Millburn thinks he was Gabriel Wright; see Gregory, Gilbert and Wright; successors to Benjamin Martin; T.C.; telescope signed "Gregory and Wright's Improved Telescope." | 148 Leadenhall Street, Navigation Warehouse, near the East India House, London. | Taylor 2(842a); Daumas; Clay and Court; Calvert 2; NMM 2; Nachet; Goodison 1; Bell 2; Moskowitz 112; Millburn 11; RSW. |
| GREGORY WRIGHT | misreading for Gregory and Wright. | RSW. | |||
| GREGORY, GILBERT AND WRIGHT | England, 1789-92, MIM OIM | Henry Gregory, John Gilbert 2 and George Wright 2. | 148 Leadenhall Street, near the East India House, Navigation Warehouse, London. | Taylor 2(839 and 909); Goodison 1; Moskowitz 112. | |
| MASON AND WRIGHT | USA, c.1853, MIM OIM PHIM | 13 Quarry, Philadelphia, Pa. | USNM. | ||
| MOORE AND WRIGHT | England, MIM | Micrometer = Christie 10/6/76. | RSW. | ||
| WRIGHT 1 | England, c.1850, PHIM | Wheel Barometers = SPI-Anderson 3/25/27, Soth. 10/19/87. | Ongar. | RSW. | |
| WRIGHT 2 | see Gregory and Wright; Gilbert, Wright and Hooke; Gilbert and Wright; Gregory, Gilbert and Wright; Moore and Wright. | Taylor 2(839); Clay and Court. | |||
| WRIGHT 3 | England, c.1760, MIM | Inclinable Sundial, with case = BM. | Taylor 1(96); Price 3; Ward 4. | ||
| WRIGHT 4 | England, post 1858, | see Baxter and Wright. | RSW. | ||
| WRIGHT AND COLE | England, pre-1748, MIM | Thomas Wright and Benjamin Cole 1; see T. Wright and B. Cole; Cole succeeded Wright in 1748. | London. | Taylor and Wilson. | |
| WRIGHT AND HOOKE | England, MIM SIM | Surveyor's Compass = P.C. | repaired by Gurley in 1930; owner lived in Roanoke, Va. | Smart 1. | |
| WRIGHT, A. | England, PHIM | Barometer = P.C.(1977). | Westminster, London. | RSW. | |
| WRIGHT, BENJAMIN 1 | England, fl.1596-1613, MIM | probably an instrument maker; worked for John Blagrave. | Taylor 1(96); Evans 1. | ||
| WRIGHT, BENJAMIN 2 | England, c.1663, | apprenticed to Henry Sutton in the Joiners' Company, March 25, 1663. | Crawforth 7. | ||
| WRIGHT, DAVID | England, c.1830, OIM | partner in Chadburn and Wright. | 94 Fargate, Sheffield. | Taylor 2(2054). | |
| WRIGHT, E. | USA, c.1850, MIM PHIM | listed in the 1850 business directory. | Philadelphia, Pa. | USNM. | |
| WRIGHT, EDWARD | England, 1558-1615, MIM OIM | designed and made mathematical instruments using telescopic sights; made the "Celestial Automaton." | Caius College, Cambridge. | Taylor 1(53); Waters 2; North 2; Bedini 8. | |
| WRIGHT, G. | see Gabriel Wright and George Wright 3. | Milburn 8. | |||
| WRIGHT, G., AND WILLIAM BARDIN | England, 1782, MIM | Celestial Globe, 1782 = Chicago Historical Society, Ill. | "Wright's New Improved Celestial Globe, ----- G. Wright and William Bardin, London, 1782." | London. | Yonge. |
| WRIGHT, GABRIEL | England, fl.1781-1803, | member of the Girdlers' Company; claimed to have worked for Benjamin Martin 1 for eighteen years; author; patented a universal gimballed compass, c.1790; invented a universal sundial in 1781. | Millburn 8 and 11; Coffeen E. | ||
| WRIGHT, GEORGE 1 | England, fl.1720-39, MIM | apprenticed to James Swetman 1 in the Grocers' Company on April 8, 1707; free of the Company on Jan. 21, 1720; took apprentices; turned over John Atkinson 2, an apprentice, to John Farmer 2 of the Joiners' Company on Sept. 25, 1739. | Clerkenwell, London (1736). | J. Brown 1; Crawforth 7; Millburn 8. | |
| WRIGHT, GEORGE 2 | England, 1740-1805, MIM NIM | Terrestrial Globes = PEA, Soth. 11/16/87; Pair of Globes = Manchester Historic Association, N.H. | author; associated with W. Bardin; invented a heliochrono- meter which was made by B. Martin; possibly invented Wright's Patent Quintant but this may by another Wright; see Wright 2; see Gilbert and Wright. | Mr. Martin's Fleet Street; The Navigation Warehouse, 148 Leadenhall Street; both in London. | Taylor 2(909); Calvert 2; Wynter and Turner; USNM; Yonge; RSW. |
| WRIGHT, GEORGE 3 | a ghost; this is realy Gabriel Wright who published a paper on a universal sundial that he had invented. | Millburn 8. | |||
| WRIGHT, GEORGE E. | USA, 1892, MIM | Sun's Altitude Calculator, 1892 = ADL-G21. | Chicago, Ill. | ADL; RSW. | |
| WRIGHT, JAMES | England, 1808, MIM | French Curve, 1808 = Phillips 11/11/81. | London. | RSW. | |
| WRIGHT, JOHN 1 | England, 1740, MIM | Sundial, 1740 = Blaise Castle Folk Museum, Henbury. | this might be John Wright 2 if the date on the sundial was misread. | Bristol. | Stevena and Aked. |
| WRIGHT, JOHN 2 | England, fl.1753-60, MIM | possibly related to Thomas Wright 1; apprenticed to Benjamin Cole 1 in the Merchant Taylor's Company, c.1753; by 1756 he had moved to Bristol; succeeded by Joshua Springer by 1759; T.C.; see John Wright 1. | London; The Sphere and Hadley's Quadrant, near St. Stephen's Church, Bristol (1756). | Goodison 1; Crawforth 1. | |
| WRIGHT, JONAS | England, MIM | made a Ptolemaic armillary sphere. | North 2. | ||
| WRIGHT, R.W. | England, OIM | Microscope = Borough Museum, Newbury, Berks. | London. | RSW. | |
| WRIGHT, ROBERT | England, fl.1821-32, | author; invented a hypsometer. | Jesus College, Cambridge; Winwick, Lancashire. | Taylor 2(219). | |
| WRIGHT, SUSAN | England, c.1730, NIM | Backstaff, lignum vitae and boxwood = Soth. 9/20/83. | signed "Made at Sus. Wrights in Bristol"; might be the widow of William Wright. | Bristol. | Taylor 2(220); RSW. |
| WRIGHT, T. | c.1900, | Sundial = ADL-T42. | signed "T. Wright, Dublin" but is the work of D.B. Sheahan of New York, N.Y. | Tomlinson 1; ADL; RSW. | |
| WRIGHT, T. AND COLE, B. | England, fl.1740-48, MIM | Grand Orrery = Dr. Coopman's house, Franeker, Holland. | Thomas Wright 1 and Benjamin Cole 1. | at the Orrery in Fleet Street, London. | RSW. |
| WRIGHT, T. AND HUSBANDS (2) | England, | T.C. | Calvert 2. | ||
| WRIGHT, THOMAS 1 | England, fl.1715-48, MIM OIM PHIM | Wide range of instruments that may be seen in many museums including grand orreries at KEN, OXF, BRM, Royal Academy, Portsmouth and Dunham Massey, Altringcham (also armillary sphere); mechanical equatorial sundials at ADL, NYM; hodometers at VCW, Longleat House; microscope at RSM. | apprenticed to John Rowley in the Broderers' Company, April 13, 1707; free in the Company by testimony of Rowley and John Coggs 1, Feb. 1, 1715; took Benjamin Cole 1 as an apprentice; MIM to George, Prince of Wales; MIM to the King; took over Rowley's work shop; partner with William Wyeth and later with Benjamin Cole 1; author and publisher; Wright was succeeded by Benjamin Cole 1 in 1748; T.C.; see Thomas Wright 1 (cont.) | see Wright, Thomas 1 (cont.) | see Thomas Wright 1 (cont.) |
| WRIGHT, THOMAS 1 (CONT.) | armillary sphere has two civil calendars. | at the Orrery and Globe, next the Globe and Marlborough Head Tavern, Fleet Street (1718); at the Orrery and Globe, Fleet Street, opposite Water Lane; at the Orrery and Globe, near Salisbury Court, Fleet Street; all in London. | Taylor 1(552), 2(143); Goodison 1; Crawforth 1 & 7; Michel 3; Chandler and Vincent; Dewhirst; Daumas 1; Price 2; Brieux 3; USNM; A.J. Turner 10; Clay and Court; Taylor and Wilson; Cajori; Royal Oak brochure; Coffeen 46 and 56; ADL; RSW. | ||
| WRIGHT, THOMAS 2 | England, 1711-86, MIM PHIM | author; trained as a philosophical instrument maker; worked at Heath's and Sisson's workshops; taught astronomy. | London; Biar's Green, near Brancepeth, Durham. | Taylor 2(321); Michel 3. | |
| WRIGHT, THOMAS 3 | England, fl.1830-38, MIM | Instrument = OXF. | the following addresses may be for two different makers. | 28 City Terrace, City Road, London; 1 Worship, Finsbury, London. | Taylor 2(2055). |
| WRIGHT, WILLIAM 1 | England, fl.1720-30, MIM NIM | made a backstaff signed "W. and W." ? | Bristol. | Taylor 2(220). | |
| WRIGHT, WILLIAM 2 | England, fl.1797-1801, MIM | rule maker. | Philip Street (1797); 14 Philip Street (1801); both in Birmingham. | Bryden 9. | |
| WRIGHTMAN, THOMAS | USA, c.1800, | engraved compass cards for Gedney King, Baker and Hooper, Joshua R. Lincoln, and John Trundy. | Warner 12. | ||
| WRIGHTSON, WILLIAM | England, c.1593, | apprenticed to Charles Whitwell of the Grocers' Company on Dec. 25, 1593. | J. Brown 1. |
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