Richard Upham Masters
Title
Richard Upham Masters
Type
Company
Coverage
Halifax, NS
New York, USA
Active From
1817-01-01
Active Until
1838-01-01
Location
2 Sackville St., Halifax , NS (1817)
Product Areas
Chronometers
Activities
Manufacturing
Designing
Importing
Timeline
- 1801 – Apprenticed to David Page (Trudel)
- 1813 – Mail carrier between Truro and Pictou, N.S. (Brooks, 45)
- 1817 – Active at 2 Sackville St., Halifax (Trudel)
- 1819 – Masters advertising himself as an inventor of a steamship propeller. (Brooks, 45)
- 1825 – Masters constructs a maritime chronometer, possibly the first to be constructed in Canada. (Brooks, 45)
- 1826 – Masters travels to London, UK, in part funded by the Nova Scotian government, to acquire instruments necessary for rating chronometers. In London, he buys an astronomical transit telescope and a regulator clock. (Brooks, 45)
- 1828 – Masters constructed a temporary transit observatory in Halifax to make astronomical observations in order to rate chronometers. (Brooks, 46)
- 1831, Aug. – The quality of Masters chronometers’ is described in the Halifax Journal. (Brooks, 46)
- 1832 – Masters exhibits a chronometer at a New York fair and is reported in newspapers as the first to make chronometers in the USA. (Brooks, 46)
- c.1838 – After a period of time in New York, USA, Masters returns to Falmouth, Nova Scotia (Brooks, 46)
- 1813 – Mail carrier between Truro and Pictou, N.S. (Brooks, 45)
- 1817 – Active at 2 Sackville St., Halifax (Trudel)
- 1819 – Masters advertising himself as an inventor of a steamship propeller. (Brooks, 45)
- 1825 – Masters constructs a maritime chronometer, possibly the first to be constructed in Canada. (Brooks, 45)
- 1826 – Masters travels to London, UK, in part funded by the Nova Scotian government, to acquire instruments necessary for rating chronometers. In London, he buys an astronomical transit telescope and a regulator clock. (Brooks, 45)
- 1828 – Masters constructed a temporary transit observatory in Halifax to make astronomical observations in order to rate chronometers. (Brooks, 46)
- 1831, Aug. – The quality of Masters chronometers’ is described in the Halifax Journal. (Brooks, 46)
- 1832 – Masters exhibits a chronometer at a New York fair and is reported in newspapers as the first to make chronometers in the USA. (Brooks, 46)
- c.1838 – After a period of time in New York, USA, Masters returns to Falmouth, Nova Scotia (Brooks, 46)
Sources
Brooks, Randall. “Nautical Instrument Makers in Maritime Canada” Nova Scotia Historical Review 6 (January 1986): 35–54
Trudel, Jean-Louis. Notes. Ingenium.
Trudel, Jean-Louis. Notes. Ingenium.
Citation
“Richard Upham Masters,” Precision Instrument Culture in Canada, accessed October 16, 2024, http://omeka.uottawa.ca/instrument-precision/items/show/2278.