John Bliss & Frederick Creighton

Place: New York City

Born: 1835

Death: 1853

Biography:

Bliss & Creighton was a short-lived partnership of American John Bliss and Englishman Frederick Creighton, who produced a little known innovation in temperature compensation of the chronometer. John Bliss was trained as a silversmith and clockmaker in Vermont, and set up business in New York as a jeweller in the 1830s. In 1834, he started trading as Bliss & Creighton, making and marketing chronometers and other items for navigational use. The partnership lasted until 1853, when it became John Bliss & Son. The firm was known for its marine chronometers and nautical instruments, and had a shop at 42 Fulton Street, taking over the old shop of Clement C. Moore.