Posts Tagged ‘Biography’
November 2013 Artist of the Month
The artist of the month for November 2013 is Pierre J.F. Turpin. Read his biography. He was born in France (Calvados) on March 11, 1775 and died in Paris on May 2, 1840.
Read MoreProfile – Mark Catesby 1683-1749
Mark Catesby (1683 – 1749) was a pioneer of botanical exploration and illustration. “The early Inclination I had to search after Plants, and other productions in nature, being much suppressed by my residing too far from London, the centre of all Science, I was deprived by all opportunities and examples to excite me of a…
Read MoreKatsushika Hokusai Biography
[Text by Sir Charles John Holmes, former Director of the National Portrait Gallery and the sixth Director of the National Gallery, from Hokusai, published in 1901.] BORN: 1760 DIED: 1849 In the autumn of 1760, when Hogarth had just had his Sigismunda thrown on his hands by Sir Richard Grosvenor, a child was born in…
Read MoreBiography of J.J. Grandville (1803-1847)
BORN: September 15, 1803, Nancy DIED: March 17, 1847, Vanves WIFE: Marguerite-Henriette Fischer (m. 1833 d. July 27, 1842) and Madame Lhuillier (m. 1843) CHILDREN: Three children who died in infancy including Georges J.J. Grandville was born on September 15, 1803. At the age of 12, he entered into lycée at Nancy. His formal education…
Read MoreProfile James Mapes Dodge circa 1903
[reprinted from Cassier’s magazine v. 24 May-Oct. 1903. Article by By S. Howard-Smith] Mechanical instinct and crea-tive facility were manifested at an early period in the life of Mr. James Mapes Dodge. The leisure of his school-boy days was largely employed in applying mechanical movements and principles to “things of use and things of play,”…
Read MoreProfile of Edward Daniel Meier circa 1900
[reprinted from Cassier’s magazine v. 18 May-Oct. 1900. Article by Robert W. Hunt] The question has been often asked, — “How and why have the United States of America made such wonderful progress, and in so short a time?” The answer is simple, when we study the character of the men who have been active…
Read MoreBiography Louis Cassier – Founder of Cassier’s Magazine
[reprinted from Cassier’s magazine v. 30 May-Oct. 1906] Among the victims of the appalling railway disaster on the London & South-Western Railway, on July 1, was Louis Cassier, the founder of this magazine. Speeding from Plymouth to London, the fast night express, which carried mails and passengers from the American Line steamship “New York,” left…
Read MoreProfile Alexander Graham Bell circa 1895
[as reprinted from Cassier’s magazine v. 8 May-Oct. 1895] With the publication, in this number, of several articles on telephony and telegraphy, it would seem appropriate to give space also to an account, however brief, of Alexander Graham Bell, whose investigations and practical developments in the field of electrical transmission of speech have given us…
Read MoreProfile of Sir Benjamin Baker, Designer of the Forth Bridge
[as reprinted from Cassier’s magazine v. 17 Nov. 1899-Apr. 1900] While Sir Benjamin Baker has designed and advised upon many engineering works of great importance, including, among others, the ship railway across the Bay of Fundy, several subaqueous tunnels, the barrage of the Nile, in brief, most of the great engineering projects of recent years,…
Read MoreProfile of Eli Whitney – Inventor of the Cotton Gin
[as reprinted from Cassier’s magazine v. 17 Nov. 1899-Apr. 1900] As the founder of the modern system of interchangeable manufacture of machinery parts which, at the present time, has a special significance in the competition for the world’ s market for engineering workshop products, Eli Whitney will always figure prominently in engineering history, though he…
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