National Historic Landmark - Joseph Henry House

National Historic Landmark - Joseph Henry House

This was the home of Joseph Henry (1797-1878), who did important research in the field of electromagnetism and served as the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1846-78) and President of the National Academy ...

Home of Joseph Henry Lumpkin

Georgia's First Chief Justice

Joseph Henry Lumpkin, born in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, Dec. 23, 1799, entered the University of Georgia at fifteen, completing his college education at Princeton, New Jersey, in 1819. Lumpkin passed the bar in 1820 and began practicing ...

Joseph Henry House

has been designated a

Registered National

Historic Landmark

Under the provisions of the

Historic Sites Act of August 21, 1935

this site possesses exceptional value

in commemorating and illustrating

the history of the United States

U.S. Department of the Interior

National Park Service

1965

Marker can be reached from Nassau Street, ...

Joseph Henry

Pathfinder in Science

Joseph Henry

Pathfinder in Science

Born in Albany

1797

Died in Washington

1878

[Left Panel]:

I arranged around one of the upper rooms in the Albany Academy a wire of more than a mile in length throvgh ...

Joseph Henry

This statue of the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution was made in 1881 by the American sculptor William Wetmore Storey, then working in Rome. Unveiled April 19, 1883.

Marker is on Jefferson Drive east of 12th Street, SW, on ...