Number of Images: 165; Color: Color; Size: 8w x 13h; Type of Image: Document; Medium: Paper
Type:
Paper
Book
Date:
August 15, 1834, to September 1839
Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes:
See SIA2013-07399 through SIA2013-07575 for Henry's Record of Experiments Book 2 and SIA2012-6592 through SIA2012-6786 for Henry's Record of Experiments Book 3.
Summary:
Joseph Henry's Record of Experiments book 1. Joseph Henry, first Smithsonian Secretary, kept this record of his scientific work from 1834 to 1839 while he was a professor of natural philosophy, the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University. Henry, a physicist, included notes on his experiments dealing with electromagnetism and other scientific topics.
Henry reused a ledger for his notes. Book 1 begins with a set of accounts in an unknown neat clerical hand. In this book, Henry's entries begin in the middle of the volume, continue to the end, and then pick up again at the beginning of the book, ending in the middle.
Contained within:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7001, Box 21, Folder: 1