Joseph Henry
Pathfinder in Science
Joseph Henry
Pathfinder in Science
Born in Albany
1797
Died in Washington
1878
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I arranged around one of the upper rooms in the Albany Academy a wire of more than a mile in length throvgh which I was enabled to make signals by sounding a bell.
Joseph Henry
This experiment was made in 1838 while he was a teacher in the academy
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He discovered self induction and his contributions to the knowledge of electro magnetism are essential to the Electric Telegraph, the Telephone, the Dynamo, the Motor & Radio.
Marker can be reached from Elk Street.
Courtesy hmdb.org
