People/Characters Joseph Henry
Works (12)
- Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould
- An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris
- Breakthroughs in Science by Isaac Asimov
- The Affair: The Case of Alfred Dreyfus by Jean-Denis Bredin
- Mr. Lincoln's T-Mails: The Untold Story of How Abraham Lincoln Used the Telegraph to Win the Civil War by Tom Wheeler
- The Quartermaster: Montgomery C. Meigs, Lincoln's General, Master Builder of the Union Army by Jr. Robert O'Harrow
- Murder at Lincoln's Gala by Colleen Gleason
- Charles Babbage and the Engines of Perfection by Bruce Collier
- History of the United States Capitol : a chronicle of design, construction, and politics by William C. Allen
- How Did We Find Out About Electricity? by Isaac Asimov
- SCIENTISTS OF THE CIVIL WAR: Matthew Fontaine Maury & Joseph Henry. by Patricia Jahns
- 12 pioneers of science by Harry Sootin
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| Description | Joseph Henry (December 17, 1797 – May 13, 1878) was an American experimental physicist and inventor who served as the first secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. He was the secretary for the National Institute for the Promotion of Science, a precursor of the Smithsonian Institution. He also served as president of the National Academy of Sciences from 1868 to 1878. Wikipedia |