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William Hamlin (15 October 1772 – 22 November 1869), an entrepreneur, was an early American engraver and the first engraver for the state of Rhode Island. ==Biography== Hamlin, the son of a pewterer and brazier, was born, raised and died in Providence, Rhode Island,〔Andrews, p. 144〕 and initially followed in his father's footsteps.〔Bedini, p. 408-411〕 He was a person of respectable scientific skills, even though self-taught on his technical abilities.〔Malone, p. 198〕 Hamlin had no formal schooling in the engraving trade 〔 and made his own tools for the work in mezzotint, aquatint and stipple.〔Dunlap, p. 305〕 He did, however, have ''some'' training as an engraver under the supervision of Samuel Canfield, a goldsmith and silversmith in Middletown, Connecticut (the town where his father was born in 1746).〔〔 ISBN 978-0-8194-7848-1.〕 Upon completion of his apprenticeship, he set up business in Middletown in 1791, and returned to Providence in 1795 “where his principle trade was engraving.” Hamlin was born in the year of the Gaspée Affair, a significant event that lead up to American Revolution. He died four years after the American Civil War in 1869. He served as a second lieutenant in the First Rhode Island militia in 1778. In 1795 when he started engraving he set up shop on North Main Street directly next door to St. John's church in Providence. He then made bank note plates.〔 Hamlin published the first view of Providence, Rhode Island, in one of his engravings.〔 Hamlin was a manufacturer and repairer of optical instruments, telescopes, sextants, and quadrants as a business.〔 He was interested in astronomy and is said to have built the first telescope in the United States.〔 One of his many telescopes he made was also available to others to study the universe.〔 Hamlin's parents, Capt. Samuel & Thankful Ely, married in 1771. Their other children (and Hamlin's siblings) were Samuel Ely (b.1774), Ann (b.1776), Richard Ely (b. 1779), Mehitable (b.1781), Mary (b.1783), and John Hosmer (b.1787).〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William Hamlin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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