| Albert Ulmann - New York (N.Y.) - 1928 - 324 pages
...following inscription: Erected by the Citizens of New York in Grateful Remembrance of Peter Cooper Founder of the Cooper Union For the Advancement of Science and Art In the main corridor of the Union there is a memorial tablet with this legend: In Commemoration of the... | |
| Iver Bernstein - History - 1991 - 384 pages
...broad boundaries of Central Park in the early fifties. Merchants also applauded Peter Cooper's founding of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in the mid-fifties. An imposing structure guarding the northern head of the Bowery, the free school sought... | |
| Mihai Nadin - Computers and literacy - 1997 - 880 pages
...experiences facilitated the assertion of other modes of expression and communication. Peter Cooper, founder of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City, made his fortune in railroads, glue, and gelatin desserts. He was truly illiterate: he could not read.... | |
| Jeffrey Grant Belnap, Raul A. Fernandez - History - 1998 - 356 pages
...pp. 159-25226 Peter Cooper (New York, 1791-1883), philanthropist, inventor and manufacturer, founder of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. In his final years, he summarized his philosophy with these words: "I have endeavored to remember that... | |
| Karen Hagemann, Jean Helen Quataert - History - 2007 - 316 pages
...in der Revolte der 1960erJahre, Atina Grossmann is Professor of History in the Faculty of Humanities of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City. Her publications include When Biology Became Destiny: Women in Weimar and Nazi Germany (ed. with Renate... | |
| Tom Lansford, Thomas E. Woods, Jr. - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2007 - 116 pages
...industry in the United States; he was also a lawyer, teacher, 'politician, and philanthropist. A founder of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City, he also is called the father of the New York City subway system for his work in planning and financing... | |
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