James Lick and Joseph Henry, ca. 1974.

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James Lick and Joseph Henry, ca. 1974.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79789876

Paper on role of Joseph Henry, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, in advising James Lick on the founding of the Lick Observatory.

3 pages.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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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...

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Smithsonian Institution

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The Smithsonian Institution was established on August 10, 1846, is a group of museums and research centers administered by the United States government. The institution is named after its founding donor, British scientist James Smithson. Originally organized as the United States National Museum.James Smithson (1765-1829), a British scientist, left his estate to the United States to found “at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusio...

Lick, James, 1796-1876

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