Joseph Henry's Letter to the Editor of the Newark Daily Advertiser (August 1, 1838)
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Request permissionsDownload image PrintLetter from Joseph Henry, then a professor at Princeton University and later first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, to the Editor of the Newark Daily Advertiser, a New Jersey newspaper, August 1, 1838. In the letter, Henry refutes a previously printed article that described a new kind of lightning rod. Henry states that the new rod, designed by Dr. William King, a Boston, Massachusetts, scientist who studied electricity, was not actually an improved design to the rods in use at the time. The letter was printed in the newspaper. Joseph Henry was an American physicist who specialized in electricity and electromagnetism.
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The accompanying PDF contains SIA2012-0884, SIA2012-0885, and SIA2012-0886, which are pages scanned from the edited transcript of the original version and notes in the Joseph Henry Papers Volume 4, pages 81-83.
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
August 1, 1838
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