Mihajlo Pupin

Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin (Михајло Идворски Пупин, aka Michael Pupin; October 4, 1858 in Idvor – 12 March 1935 in New York City) was a Serbian-American electrical engineer, prolific inventor, physicist, physical chemist, Serbian nationalist, philanthropist, and Pulitzer Prize winning autobiographer. Among his many honors, he was elected in 1905 a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and served in 1925 as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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Röntgen's experiments have been repeated in this country in several laboratories,—at Harvard, Yale, Johns Hopkins, Princeton, and in the writers's laboratory at Columbia. At the McGill University in Montreal a bullet was located in a man's leg by means of this photography. Similar reports have reached us from Europe. Several hospitals in this city intend to put in an ouftit suitable for the production of the X-rays. The surgeons expect much help from this remarkable discovery, and the experimental results obtained in this country so far seem to hold out a very bright prospect.
- (March 1896) "Professor Rӧntgen's discovery of a new radiance". The Engineering Magazine: 1021–1028. (quote from pp. 1025–1026)

Lewis Morris Rutherfurd, a trustee of Columbia College, was at that time the head of the famous Rutherfurd family. He was a gentleman of leisure and devoted himself to science and particularly to photographic astronomy, just as did his famous friend, Doctor John William Draper, the author of the “History of the Intellectual Development of Europe.” Rutherfurd was a pioneer worker in this field of astronomy, and his photographs of the moon and the stars were always regarded by the scientists of the world as most valuable contributions to astronomy. The historic Rutherfurd mansion, with its astronomical observatory, was on Eleventh Street and Second Avenue. Rutherfurd's sons, Lewis and Winthrop, were my fellow students at Columbia; Lewis was a year ahead of me and Winthrop was a year below me. Through their cousin, a chum and classmate of mine, I became acquainted with them.
- From Immigrant to Inventor. Charles Scribner's Sons. 1923. p. 122. (396 pages)

It is now two hundred years since Stephen Gray discovered that an electrical charge will move with great rapidity along certain substances called conductors today. The motion of electricity began then to attract the attention of the natural philosopher, and it became the subject of many scientific researches, particularly after Franklin had demonstrated that lightning is a motion of electricity. There is no doubt that many a scientist of Franklin's time associated with the destructive power of lightning something resembling the destructive power of a projectile; something endowed with an irresistible momentum. But who would have dared to suggest in those days that moving electricity just like moving matter had a momentum? Nobody suspected in those days that the history of the electrical science of the first half of the nineteenth century would be a record of the gradual evolution of this electrical momentum concept. Oersted's discovery in 1819 of the magnetic field of force accompanying the motion of electricity marks the first step in the progress of that evolution.
- (February 1927) "Fifty years' progress in electrical communications". Journal of the A.I.E.E. 46 (2): 171–174. DOI:10.1109/JAIEE.1927.6537962.

One of the most memorable events in the history of America since the Civil War is the well-known movement for higher intellectual endeavor. It started in 1863, when, with the sanction and support of Lincoln, the National Academy of Sciences was founded. Joseph Henry, Frederick Barnard, William Draper, Andrew White, Daniel Gilman, and several other idealists of the Academy were its spiritual leaders.
- Romance of the Machine. Charles Scribner's Sons. 1930. pp. 2–3. (111 pages)