Joseph Henry (1799-1878)

Teacher – Researcher – Administrator

 

 

Memoir by Astronomer Simon Newcomb (1880) (1880)

Dean Magie’s Lecture about Henry (1913) (1913)

Address by Prof. Michael Pupin (1927) (1927)

Henry Papers Project Summary

Wheeler’s article about Joseph Henry

The henry – a unit of inductance

State of Understanding of Electrical Sciences in 1829

Joseph Henry (1879)
    • 1819 – 1822 – Attended The Albany Academy, Albany, NY
    • 1826 – Professor of Natural Philosophy at The Albany Academy
    • Jan 1831 – Early Electromagnetic Experiments
    • Apr 1831 – Yale Electromagnet