George Adams (optician)

George Adams (c. 1709–1773) was an English instrument maker and science writer. His son George Adams, who carried on the business, was also known as an instrument maker and optician.

He was the eldest surviving son of Morris Adams, a cook, and his wife Mary, and was baptised in 1709. He was an apprentice to instrument makers, James Parker who died, and then Thomas Heath. He went into business in 1734, in Fleet Street, London.

George Adams microscope in the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo

Sea Quadrant by George Adams, at The Mariners' Museum

Serial number, date, and signature from George Adams' sea quadrant, at The Mariners' Museum

Adams was best known for A Treatise Describing the Construction and Explaining the Use of New Celestial and Terrestrial Globes (London: 1766). There were later editions, but the claim of 30 up to 1810 is not now accepted. Other works were:

...
Wikipedia