Dearborn, Benjamin, 1754-1838
Benjamin Dearborn
Benjamin Dearborn American inventor
VIAF ID: 238473595 ( Personal )
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Works
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Columbian grammar | |
The Columbian grammar: or, An essay for reducing a grammatical knowledge of the English language to a degree of simplicity, which will render it easy for the instructer [sic] to teach, and for the pupil to learn : Accompanied with notes, critical and explanatory. For the use of schools; and of young gentlemen and ladies, natives or foreigners, who are desirous of attempting the study without a tutor. Being designed as part of a general system of education, in the most useful branches of literature, for American youth of both sexes. By Benjamin Dearborn, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. | |
A description of the vibrating steelyard, or just balance Invented by the subscriber, and secured to him by patent. This convenient and accurate steelyard, unites more advantages for weighing with ease, dispatch, and certainty, than any instrument heretofore offered to the public; as may be seen by the following comparative view of the common steelyard and scales, and the vibrating steelyard | |
A lenient system, for adjusting demands, and collecting debts, without imprisonment; uniting justice with clemency, in coercive measures, for stimulating debtors, to fulfil their contracts. | |
A plan of those parts of Boston, and the towns in its vicinity, with the waters and flats adjacent, which are immediately or remotely connected with the contemplated design of erecting perpetual tide-mills. | |
The pupil's guide, 1782: | |
The pupil's guide. Being a collection of the most useful rules in arithmetic ... |