Joseph Henry's Letter to Benjamin Silliman, Sr. (January 15, 1831)

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Summary

Letter from Joseph Henry, then a teacher at the Albany Academy and later first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, to Benjamin Silliman, Sr., a chemist and professor at Yale University, January 15, 1831. In the letter, Henry thanks Silliman for consenting to print his article on the results of his experiments in electromagnetism in the "American Journal of Science," of which Silliman was the founder and editor. Henry also informs Silliman of the progress being made in Henry's construction of a large electromagnet for Silliman to demonstrate to his students at Yale.

Subject

  • Silliman, Benjamin 1816-1885
  • Albany Academy
  • Yale University

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

2 pages scanned from the edited transcript of the original version and notes in the Joseph Henry Papers Volume 1, pages 319-320.

Contained within

Reingold, Nathan, et al, eds., The Papers of Joseph Henry, Volume 1, The Albany Years: December 1797-October 1832 (Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1972), 319-320

Contact information

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

Date

January 15, 1831

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

  • Publishers and publishing
  • Publications
  • Secretaries
  • Letters
  • Inventions
  • Science
  • Educators
  • Experiments
  • Electric apparatus and appliances
  • Chemistry
  • Scientific apparatus and instruments
  • Editors
  • Electromagnets
  • Electromagnetism
  • Teachers
  • Electromagnet
  • Science--Experiments

Place

United States

Form/Genre

  • Document
  • Paper

ID Number

SIA2012-0934 and SIA2012-0935

Physical description

Number of Images: 2 ; Color: Black and White ; Size: 7w x 10h ; Type of Image: Document ; Medium: Paper

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