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Rittenhouse   /rˈɪtənhˌaʊs/   Listen
Rittenhouse

noun
1.
United States astronomer said to have built the first telescope made in America; also the first director of the United States Mint (1732-1796).  Synonym: David Rittenhouse.






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"Rittenhouse" Quotes from Famous Books



... you can put a man to is to kill him. Blow up to-morrow all the country-seats on the banks of the Hudson, and all the fine houses on Madison Square, and Brooklyn Heights, and Bunker Hill, and Rittenhouse Square, and Beacon Street, and all the bricks and timber and stone will just fall back on the bare head of American labor. The worst enemies of the working-classes in the United States and Ireland are their demented coadjutors. ...
— New Tabernacle Sermons • Thomas De Witt Talmage



Words linked to "Rittenhouse" :   stargazer, David Rittenhouse, astronomer, uranologist



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