Essay on Electricity.and describing the Instruments.

Fifth edition, with corrections and additions by William Jones, Mathem. Instrumentmaker. London, 1799.

"The son of George Adams the mathematical instrument maker to George III. He succeeded his father in that office and in the superintendence of his business. He was the author of a large number of elementary scientific works, which according to a writer in the "British Critic," were so planned as 'to comprise a regular and systematic instruction in the most important branches of natural science with all its modern improvements." He also wrote largely on the use of mathematical instruments, and his books on that subject were highly valued. In politics he was a staunch tory, and as such was received with favour at court by George III. In many of his published works he combined a religious with a scientific aim, and 'applied all his knowledge,' says the 'Gentleman's Magazine,' 'to the best of purposes-to combat the growing errors of materialism, infidelity, and anarchy' (Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford).

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