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Swasey, Ambrose

(1846-1937), U.S. mechanical engineer and ASME's 23d president (1904-05), produced the dividing engine used for meridian circles by the U.S. Naval Observatory (1898). He partnered with W. R. Warner in 1880 to establish a machine tool manufacturing business in Chicago, which soon moved to Cleveland, Ohio. In 1887 he mounted the 36-inch refracting telescope at Lick Observatory in California. He was born Dec. 19, 1846, Exeter, New Hampshire, and died June 15, 1937, Exeter.

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