Papers, 1855-1910.

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Papers, 1855-1910.

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The papers are a fragmentary collection. The diary contains primarily accounts of receipts and expenses from Savery's apprenticeship and early career. Additional correspondence and clippings deal with Savery's role in developing the papermaking machinery business of Pusey & Jones. These include financial papers and voting trust certificates. There are also letters, prospectuses and statements relating to Savery's unsuccessful papermaking operations in Colorado. The personal correspondence, invitations and accounts include a letter from Joseph Henry of the Smithsonian Institution to R. H. Lamborn of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Altoona concerning meteorological observations to be recorded by Savery at that place. The miscellany includes menus, programs and notes for speeches given by Savery at Wilmington Board of Trade banquets.

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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...

Denver Paper Mills Company.

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Columbus, Piqua and Indiana Railroad Company.

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Savery, Thomas H., 1837-1910.

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Thomas Savery was born on May 31, 1837 in Philadelphia, Pa. After attending the Friends Select School and the Westtown Boarding School in Chester County, he then became apprentice machinist at William Sellers & Company of Philadelphia. After finishing this apprenticeship he was employed as a foreman in the shops of the Columbus, Piqua & Indiana Railroad. He then became superintendent in the Pennsylvania Railroad's Altoona shops. In 1864 Savery became shop foreman...

Pennsylvania Railroad

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Wilmington Board of Trade (Del.).

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Rocky Mountain Paper Company.

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Pusey and Jones Company

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