Alexander James Adie
1775–1858
Optician and instrument maker. Of Edinburgh. Invented the sympiesometer in 1818.
Source
Modern English biography
Bibliography
Modern English biography: Modern English biography, containing many thousand concise memoirs of persons who have died since the year 1850. By Frederick Boase. 3 vols. and supplement (3 vols.). Truro, Cornwall: the author. 1892–1921.
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