Joseph Henry’s Record of Experiments

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** Help us review our volunteers' transcriptions and bring these volumes to 100% complete! ** Already well known by the 1830's for his scientific vision and passion to see scientific discipline increase in America, Joseph Henry (1797-1878) was to become the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. A physicist and scientific pioneer, Henry kept this handwritten record of his research in this 3 volumes, begun during the last half of the 1830's while a professor of natural philosophy at the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University. Filling three volumes, his Record of Experiments spans almost three decades of work in electromagnetism, light, telegraphy and a number of other scientific topics. Help us transcribe this Record of Experiments of an American scientist who pursued knowledge for over four decades and worked to shape and guide the Institution, furthering its intellectual reach and diffusion of knowledge.

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