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I note this page is linked to Casualties of the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks: City of New York where firefighter Joseph Henry is listed among those killed. He should be mentioned here. I would do it myself, but am too depressed from reading the names of the dead. - Paul, in Saudi 17:15, 16 January 2004 (UTC)
Some philanthropic AH left this line on the very top of the front page:
As I remarked in my book on Henry's friend, Prof. Thaddeus Lowe:
The section on Lowe is far longer than all the discussion of Henry's groundbreaking electrical work. I recommend that this section be boiled down to 2 sentences with a link to the main Lowe article. The implication is that Henry's connection to Lowe is his main claim to fame, which is not at all the case.
The edited section could be something like "Prof. Henry was introduced to Prof. Thaddeus Lowe, a balloonist from New Hampshire who had taken interest in the phenomena of lighter-than-air gases, and exploits into meteorology, in particular, the high winds which we call the Jet stream today. Henry had been in charge of weather observation in New York for several years in his early career, and could see how a baloon could navigate by ascending to different altitudes where the wind direction naturally varied. While lecturing at the Albany Academy, Henry had done several interesting demonstrations on pneumatics and had studied the combustion of hydrocarbons. Henry took a great interest in Lowe's endeavors so much as to support and promote him among some of the more prominent scientists and institutions of the day. On Henry's recommendation Lowe went on to form the Union Army Balloon Corps and served two years with the Army of the Potomac as a Civil War Aeronaut." Edison 14:41, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
about.com claims he invented the doorbell in 1831... is it to be considered reliable? Lo'oris - ロホリス 22:05, 25 September 2006 (UTC) (crosspost with the doorbell talk page)
I've added a reference to the (relatively) recent biography: Moyer, Albert E., Joseph Henry: The Rise of an American Scientist, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 1997. Moyer's a History of Science professor at Virgina Tech; perhaps someone should recruit him for this article. Anyway, the biography was partly supported by the Smithsonian, and was intended to celebrate the bicentennial of Henry's birth. I'm not prepared yet to make any changes to the main article based on my reading of this biography. I am, however, not a fan of Coulson's biography. I also have a pleasant, children's biography in my collection: Jahns, Patricia, Joseph Henry: Father of American Electronics, Rutledge Books, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1970. - EAS 02:19, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
WRT the comment on winding an electromagnet when using a single battery vs multiple batteries. At the risk of being pedantic, should this be single-cell battery vs multiple batteries or does it really mean a single battery (regardless of number of cells) vs multiple batteries? Why is this difference in winding significant? - Michael Daly 19:41, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
I was intending to comment on this very point when I saw that the point had already been made. I would have edited the entry but I could not make out what the point of the entry was. If it cannot be clarified, I would suggest removing it altogether, — Preceding unsigned comment added by PEBill ( talk • contribs) 11:55, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
I removed the unreferenced candy-bar trivia section. - Astrochemist 01:01, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
Maybe add a little section about his family life? I know his wife was his maternal first cousin and they had four children that survived infancy... added them to the infobox. Don't have time now to dig through the Smithsonian's online files on him, but poked around enough to tell that they have a lot of information. And his daughter Mary wrote a fairly historically important diary: an observation of the Civil War in D.C. Enchanting catalyst ( talk) 15:58, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
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The page states that Henry died on May 13, 1878; while the side-box shows a photo of Henry, dated 1879, in which he looks very much alive! (The box also states that Henry was the second President of the NAS from 1868-1879.) What a clever fellow was our Joseph! George963 au ( talk) 00:47, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
It's a very interesting and enlightening article, to be sure, however I have doubts that the same article posted on two different sites can really used as two citations. Feels like cheating. TRS ( talk) 03:13, 29 November 2023 (UTC)