The Franklin Institute: Its Services and Desertsthe Institute, 1908 - 54 páginas |
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Academy of Natural Alexander Dallas Bache American Philosophical Society appointed April Arts Assistant awarded became Benjamin Franklin Board of Managers born in Philadelphia building fund Bullock Centennial Central High School chair of Mechanics Chairman chief engineer City of Philadelphia Coleman Sellers Committee on Science contributions Cresson Dallas Bache death Dickinson College died in Philadelphia Drawing School Editor exhibition of 1874 founders Franklin Institute exhibition Franklin Peale Frederick Fraley Frederick Graff Geological Girard College graduated held Henry Henry Christopher McCook Holman Insti Institute's interest inventions James Ronaldson John F John Sartain Jones Journal July June Keating lectures Masonic Matthias W Matthias William Baldwin Medal Medical Morton Natural Sciences Penn Persifor Frazer phia Philadel present President Prof Professor of Chemistry Railroad Robert Hare Rogers Schuylkill scientific Secretary stitute sylvania Tatham tion Trautwine tute University of Pennsylvania Vaughan Merrick Vice-President Wahl Walter water-works William Sellers
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Página 291 - THE BOYDEN PREMIUM URIAH A. BOYDEN, ESQ., of Boston, Mass., has deposited with THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE the sum of one thousand dollars, to be awarded as a premium to "Any resident of North America who shall determine by experiment whether all rays of light,* and other physical rays, are or are not transmitted with the same velocity.
Página 247 - ... such young married artificers under the age of twentyfive years as have served an apprenticeship in the said town, and faithfully fulfilled the duties required in their indentures, so as to obtain a good moral character from at least two respectable citizens, who are willing to become their sureties...
Página 250 - ... encouragement of manufactures and the mechanic and useful arts, by the establishment of popular lectures on the sciences connected with them, by the formation of a cabinet of models and minerals. and a library, by offering premiums on all objects deemed worthy of encouragement, by examining all new inventions submitted to them, and by such other measures as they may judge expedient (/). In time these general aims came into sharper focus as more definite proposals were outlined.
Página 298 - ... board of the Department of Defense, chairman of the committee on undersea warfare of the National Research Council ; member of the advisory board of the US Navy Ordnance Laboratory, Silver Spring, Maryland, and the advisory committee of the Ordance Corps of the Department of the Army. In addition, he is a member of the board of managers of the Franklin Institute, and director of the First National Bank of Philadelphia. Among the professional organizations to which he belongs are the Physical...
Página 271 - ... Jackson register of the land office at Indianapolis. In 1835 Mr. Slaughter was appointed register of the land office at Green Bay, from which position he was transferred to the secretaryship of the territory of Wisconsin in 1837. This office he resigned in 1841 and returned to Virginia, where he resided until the breaking out of the War of the Rebellion in 1861, when he came back to Wisconsin and settled in Madison. In 1862 he was appointed by President Lincoln quartermaster in the Union army,...
Página 272 - States be, and is hereby, authorized to appoint a scientific commission which may, in the name of the United States Government, conduct a national conference of electricians in Philadelphia in the autumn of 1884...
Página 260 - ... and art of education in this country than any other work ever published." The college was still, however, in a state of incompletion, and in order to use his time to advantage, Professor Bache undertook to reorganize the Philadelphia high school. This was accomplished in a year, and he then became principal of the high school and superintendent of the public schools of Philadelphia. In 1842 he returned to his former chair at the University of Pennsylvania, but the following year left it to succeed...
Página 277 - Representative of the Institute in the Board of Trustees of the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art, Vice-President of the Young Engineers' Club, and Member of the American Philosophical Society.
Página 273 - Committee are the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Institute of Mining Engineers, the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, and the American Chemical Society...
Página 282 - Honorary member of the American Philosophical Society, and of the Academy of Natural Sciences, &c.