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The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Scientific Cambridge. (search)
nterested to see what he gave to students. There were twenty or more excellent notes on astronomy and optics, and only one on magnetism and one on electricity. Professor Winthrop assisted at certain astronomical events; made interesting observations on the earthquake which visited Cambridge in 1755, and which was sufficiently powerful to throw bricks from a chimney of the professor's house across the pathway. He was elected member of the Royal Society of London. Count Rumford, then Benjamin Thompson, it is said, walked from Woburn to Cambridge to hear Professor Winthrop lecture. After Winthrop came Rev. Mr. Williams; then Professor Farrar, a remarkable lecturer. Up to the year 1830, astronomy and physics were the only sciences to which much attention was paid in Cambridge. There were no laboratories even in chemistry. In 1816, Dr. Jacob Bigelow was appointed Rumford professor and lecturer on the application of science to the useful arts. He was perhaps the earliest citize
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Harvard University in its relations to the city of Cambridge. (search)
Chauncy, Willard, Kirkland, and Quincy. Cambridge is associated in the minds of thousands of Americans with scientific achievements of lasting worth. Here lived Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse, the first Hersey professor of physic, who introduced the kine-pox into America, and John Winthrop, Hollis professor of natural philosophy from 1738 to 1779, one of the very earliest students of the phenomena of earthquakes, the friend and correspondent of Benjamin Franklin, and the man whose lectures Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford) walked from Woburn to hear. For two generations Asa Gray has turned the thoughts of innumerable students of botany, young and old, to Cambridge as the place where their guide into botanical science lived and wrote. For two hundred and sixty years the lamp of philosophy has been kept burning in this quiet town, and that illumination makes it a brighter place to live in for the present and the coming generations. Amid the universal struggles to get a livelihood, to mak
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), General Index. (search)
ed to church-members, 6. Sweet Auburn, 139. See Mount Auburn. Taxation, property exempt front, 320. Taxation without representation, early case of, 5. Tax rate, 59. Tea, duty on, 21, 22. Tea, destruction of, 22. Third Parish, called Little Cambridge. 9; attempts to establish, 14, 15; opposition, 14, 15; compromises, 15; new petition and counter-petition, 16; the precinct incorporated, 16; a church founded 16; incorporated as the town of Brighton, 16. See Brighton. Thompson, Benjamin (Count Rumford), Toll bridges, 29. Tory Row, 28. Town, body of, 16. Town boys and Wells boys, 38. Town church. See First Parish. Town-house, location, 31. Town, traces of English method of forming, in Cambridge, 4. Travel between Boston and Cambridge, 400. Treadwell, Prof. Daniel, 73. Treasurer, City, 402. Trowbridge, Prof. John, 77. Trustees of Cambridge Public Library, 403. Uniform Rank Garnett Division, K. of P., 292. Union Methodist Episcop