Joseph Henry's lectures on natural philosophy: teaching and research in physics, 1832-1847, 1965 1965

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Joseph Henry's lectures on natural philosophy: teaching and research in physics, 1832-1847, 1965 1965

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This dissertation reveals how Joseph Henry's teaching related to his research, and how it reflected his overall scientific outlook and affected developments in physics.

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Weiner, Charles.

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Charles Irwin Weiner is an historian. From the guide to the Joseph Henry's lectures on natural philosophy: teaching and research in physics, 1832-1847, 1965, 1965, (American Philosophical Society) ...

Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878

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Joseph Henry (1797-1878, APS 1835), a physicist, was the first secretary and director of the Smithsonian Institution, a post he retained for over three decades. Henry was a leading experimental scientist whose contributions include several discoveries in the field of electromagnetics. He has been credited with the invention of the electromagnet and the telegraph, among other things. Henry was born in 1797 in Albany, New York, the son of William Henry, a teamster, and his wife An...