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3 unusual facts about Joseph Henry


Joseph Henry

Bronze statutes of Henry and Isaac Newton represent science on the balustrade of the galleries of the Main Reading Room in the Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. They are two of the 16 historical figures depicted in the reading room, each pair representing one of the 8 pillars of civilization.

On Henry's recommendation Lowe went on to form the United States Army/"Union Army" Balloon Corps and served two years with the Army of the Potomac as a Civil War "Aeronaut".

Smithsonian Institution Building

The East Wing was completed in 1849 and occupied by Secretary Joseph Henry and his family.


Professor Joseph Henry

Professor Joseph Henry is a bronze outdoor sculpture by William Wetmore Story, depicting Joseph Henry, located in front of the Smithsonian Institution Building in Washington, D.C. The sculpture is nine feet tall, with a base made from Maine red granite and Quincy gray granite.

Theodric Romeyn Beck

He served as the Principal of The Albany Academy from 1817 to 1848, where he encouraged the future curator of the Smithsonian Institution, Joseph Henry, to enroll as a student and later serve as a professor of mathematics and natural philosophy in 1826.


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Neil LaBatte

Neil Joseph Henry Labatte (born April 24, 1957 in Don Mills, Ontario) is a retired professional ice hockey player who played 26 games in the National Hockey League.