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By Howard C. Ohlhous, September 22, 2008

Joseph Henry Marker - Detail - Left Panel

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1 ► New York, Albany County, Albany, Downtown — 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 which I was enabled . . . — — Map (db m11749) HM

2 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, The National Mall — 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. — — Map (db m213) HM

3 ► New York, Albany County, Albany, Downtown — Birthplace of Modern Electricity —

Birthplace of Modern Electricity. Here discovering magnetic induction, Joseph Henry pioneered the telegraph and electric motor, 1829-31. — — Map (db m141459) HM

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