Biography Category
1821–94, American librarian, bibliographer, and historian, b. Essex co., Mass. Poole was librarian of the Boston Athenaeum (1856–69), of the publi...
1733–1804, English theologian and scientist. He prepared for the Presbyterian ministry and served several churches in England as pastor but graduall...
1924–, French dancer and choreographer, b. Villemoble. Petit joined the Paris Opéra company at 15 and in 1948 founded Les Ballets de Paris de Rolan...
( t´´tävyä´n d ´ p tr t´ch ) (KEY) , 1466–1539, Venetian printer. Petrucci was the inventor of printing music by movable metal type. His pa...
(kr stôf´ pläNt N´) (KEY) , 1514–89, printer. Plantin left his native France for Belgium because of religious persecution. In Antwerp his work, ...
1831–97, American industrialist and developer of the railroad sleeping car, b. Brocton, N.Y. As a young man he became a cabinetmaker, and after he m...