Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Ko te Ahorangi Winthrop tētahi o ngā tangata pūtaiao nui rawa i Amerika i te rau tau 18, ā, he tino nui te pānga o tana pānga ki te nekehanga wawe o te pūtaiao ki New England. Ko Benjamin Franklin raua ko Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford) pea he nui o ta raua hiahia mo te rangahau putaiao ki tana awe. He mana nui hoki tana ki te maatauranga rapunga whakaaro o John Adams i te wa o te Harvard. I pānui rārangi ia ki te Royal Society i Rānana, ā, ko ia tētahi o ngā tohunga mātauranga o Amerika tuatahi i whakaarohia i Uropi. I kōwhiria ia ki te American Philosophical Society i te tau 1768. I mōhiotia ia mō te whakamātau ki te whakamārama i te
Ko tana whakamahinga o nga tatauranga pāngarau ki te mahi ru i muri i te ruu nui i hanga te turanga o te kereme i runga i tana ingoa hei kaiwhakaara o te pūtaiao o te seismology. I tua atu, i mātakitaki ia i ngā whakawhitinga o Mercury i te tau 1740 me te tau 1761 ka haere ki Newfoundland ki te mātakitaki i tētahi whakawhitinga o Venus. I haere ia i runga i tētahi kaipuke i whakaratohia e te Porowini o Massachusetts - tērā pea ko te haerenga pūtaiao tuatahi i tukuna e tētahi kāwanatanga o Amerika.