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IT is appropriate that the third volume in the series entitled “Pennsylvania Lives” should be devoted to John Alfred Brashear, a poor millwright with little education, who not only became famous the world over for his genius in the construction of fine precision instruments but also, through his untiring labours on behalf of the people of his native Pittsburg, became known to them affectionately as “Uncle John” and was voted “the most distinguished citizen of Pennsylvania”.
John Alfred Brashear, Scientist and Humanitarian, 1840–1920
By Harriet A. Gaul Ruby Eiseman. Pp. viii + 220. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1940.) 14s. net.
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JONES, H. John Alfred Brashear, Scientist and Humanitarian, 1840–1920. Nature 149, 283–284 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/149283a0
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