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 . . . — — Map (db m11749) HM
On Jefferson Drive Southwest east of 12th Street Southwest, on the left when traveling east.
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. — — Map (db m213) HM
On Washington Ave. (New York State Route 5) west of Eagle Street, on the right when traveling west.
Birthplace of Modern Electricity. Here discovering magnetic induction, Joseph Henry pioneered the telegraph and electric motor, 1829-31. — — Map (db m141459) HM
