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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 16 2 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 16 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 1. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 8 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Draper, John William, 1811- (search)
Draper, John William, 1811- Scientist; born in St. Helen's, near Liverpool, England, May 5, 1811; was educated in scientific studies at chemical studies in the University of Pennsylvania, where John William Draper. he took the degree of M. D. He became (1836-39) Professor oy, and Physiology in Hampden-Sidney College, Virginia. From 1839 Dr. Draper was connected, as professor, with the University of the City of Ns also president of the scientific department of the university. Dr. Draper was one of the most patient, careful, and acute of scientific invican Civil War, in 3 volumes, appeared between 1867 and 1870. To Dr. Draper are due many fundamental facts concerning the phenomena of the sphe distribution of heat and of chemical force in the spectrum. Dr. Draper's researches materially aided in perfecting Daguerre's great discre's great discovery. In 1876 the Rumford gold medal was bestowed upon Dr. Draper by the American Academy of Sciences. He died Jan. 4, 1882.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Fine Arts, the. (search)
of the first lineengravers in the world, but abandoned the profession for the art of painting. The art of lithography was introduced into the United States in 1821, by Messrs. Burnet and Doolittle, and steadily gained favor as a cheap method of producing pictures. It is now extensively employed in producing chromo-lithographic pictures. Photography, the child of the daguerreotype, was first produced in England by Mr. Talbot, and was introduced here chiefly by the labors in science of Dr. J. W. Draper, of New York. Indeed, the discovery of the process of making pictures by employing sunlight as the artist was the result of the previous experiments and writings concerning the chemical action of light by Dr. Draper. The American Academy of Fine Arts was incorporated in 1808, and the first public exhibition of works of art followed. At the suggestion of Prof. Samuel F. B. Morse (q. v.) younger painters associated, and in 1826 organized the National Academy of the Arts of Design in th
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
......1838 Unsettled boundary between Maine and the British provinces results in the Aroostook War ......February–March, 1839 Rev. Zerah Colburn died at Norwich, Vt., aged thirty-five......March 2, 1839......[A mathematical prodigy.] Twenty-fifth Congress adjourns......March 3, 1839 L'Amistad ( Friendship ) is captured off Montauk Point by the United States brig Washington, Lieutenant Geding commanding......Aug. 29, 1839 Daguerreotypes first taken in the United States by Prof. J. W. Draper......1839 Liberty party, in convention at Warsaw, N. Y., nominates James G. Birney for President and Thomas Earle, of Pennsylvania, for Vice-President......Nov. 13, 1839 [This was the first appearance of a national anti-slavery party, and although Mr. Birney declined the nomination, it polled over 7,000 votes.] Twenty-sixth Congress, first session, assembles......Dec. 2-16, 1839 Robert M. T. Hunter, of Virginia, Whig, elected speaker of the House on the eleventh ballot, rec