Biography Category
1800–1878, American educator, b. East Hampton, N.Y.; daughter of Lyman Beecher. She first taught in New London, Conn., and in 1824 founded a girlsâ€...
1715–1806, English educator, grad. Univ. of Edinburgh. He established (1760) at Edinburgh the first school in Great Britain for deaf-mutes, moving i...
1723–86, British vice admiral and explorer. Sailing in 1740 with Admiral George Anson on a voyage around the world, he was shipwrecked off Chile. Hi...
1801–53, English map engraver and the originator of railway guides. Bradshaw’s Railway Time-Tables, first published in 1839, became Bradshaw’s M...
1888–1946, Scottish inventor. In 1926 he gave the first demonstration of true television with a televisor of his own invention that differed from la...
(h n´r kh bärt) (KEY) , 1821–65, German explorer in British service. After traveling (1845–47) through the Levant and N Africa, he entered the s...