Electromagnet Made by Joseph Henry

Summary

During his years at Albany Academy and the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), Joseph Henry (1797-1878), first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1846 to 1878, designed the most powerful electromagnets of his day. Henry constructed this powerful electromagnet for Benjamin Silliman of Yale University to exhibit before his students. It is now in the National Museum of American History.

Subject

• Henry, Joseph 1797-1878
• Silliman, Benjamin 1816-1885
• National Museum of American History (U.S.) (NMAH)
• Albany Academy
• College of New Jersey (Princeton, N.J.)
• Yale University

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

• Published in the Smithsonian Scientific Series, vol.1, Charles Greeley Abbot, editor. See MAH-13346 for another image.
• For another view of the electromagnet, see Neg. MAH-13346.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 12, Folder: 27

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

1978

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

• Electric apparatus and appliances
• Artifacts
• Inventors
• Electricity
• Scientific apparatus and instruments
• Secretaries
• Inventions
• Science
• Electromagnets
• History
• Magnets
• Electromagnet
• Electromagnetism
• Science--History

Place

United States

Form/Genre

• Photographic print
• Object

ID Number

78-6063

Physical description

Color: Black and White; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Object; Medium: Photographic print

Full Record

View Full Record