"Looking Back: James H. Logan, First superintendent of the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf"

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Summary

The first Smithsonian Secretary, Joseph Henry, personally helped James H. Logan, one of the first three deaf students at Gallaudet College, obtain a patent for an improvement of a microscope. Logan, as a recent graduate of the "National Deaf Mute College" or Gallaudet, led the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in its early years.

Subject

  • Henry, Joseph 1797-1878
  • Gallaudet College
  • Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf

Contained within

Western Pennsylvanian, 98 (3) (Journal)

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, [email protected]

Category

Smithsonian History Bibliography

Date

1990

Topic

  • Deafness
  • Patents
  • Hearing
  • Inventors
  • Scientific apparatus and instruments
  • Inventions
  • People with disabilities
  • Microscopes
  • Educators
  • Disabilities
  • Pennsylvania

Place

Pennsylvania

Physical description

Number of pages: 04; Page numbers: 1-4

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