Philip Ten Eyck

Philip Ten Eyck (born March 10, 1802 , † July 15, 1893 in Albany ) was an American natural philosopher and mathematician .

Life

Philip Ten Eyck's ancestor, Coenradt Ten Eyck, came to the United States from the Netherlands in 1650 . In 1826 he became professor of natural philosophy and mathematics at the Albany Academy . He worked closely with Joseph Henry . When Henry retired in 1832, he took over his post until he retired in 1848. Ten Eyck and Henry conducted experiments with large electromagnets, which he reported from January 1831. As reported in The Journal of the Royal Institution of Great Britain in December 1831, they had a magnet that could hold 2063 lbs. (934 kg) built. In doing so, they relied on the book The galvanic chain mathematically edited by Georg Simon Ohm , published in 1827 , which Ten Eyck only understood after he was in England in 1837 and had spoken to Charles Wheatstone about it.

Web links

Our Academy. Students, Families, and Achievements The First Century of Albany Academy. John T. McClintock, 2016.
Roger Sherman: Joseph Henry's Contributions to the Electromagnet and the Electric Motor. Smithsonian Institution, accessed August 25, 2009 .

Individual evidence

↑ Obituary . In: The New York Times . New York July 16, 1893 ( Online [PDF]). See Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs: Ten Eyck. In: Schenectady Digital History Archive. Schenectady County Public Library, accessed August 25, 2009 .
^ Descendents of Coenraet Ten Eyck who arrived in New Amsterdam about 1650. In: Skipper Ed's Home Page. Retrieved August 25, 2009 .
^ The Journal of the Royal Institution of Great Britain . tape 2 . Royal Institution of Great Britain, 1831, p. 182 ( books.google.de ).
↑ Heinrich Wilhelm Dove : Repertorium der Physik: Containing a complete compilation of the newer advances in this science . tape 1 . Veit & Comp, 1837, p. 271 ( books.google.de ).
↑ Joseph Keithley (Ed.): The story of electrical and magnetic measurements: from 500 BC to the 1940s . John Wiley and Sons, 1999, ISBN 978-0-7803-1193-0 , pp. 143 .

personal data
SURNAME	Ten Eyck, Philip
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 10, 1802
DATE OF DEATH	July 15, 1893
Place of death	Albany

[1] Obituary . In: The New York Times . New York July 16, 1893 ( Online [PDF]). See Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs: Ten Eyck. In: Schenectady Digital History Archive. Schenectady County Public Library, accessed August 25, 2009 .

[2] Descendents of Coenraet Ten Eyck who arrived in New Amsterdam about 1650. In: Skipper Ed's Home Page. Retrieved August 25, 2009 .

[3] The Journal of the Royal Institution of Great Britain . tape 2 . Royal Institution of Great Britain, 1831, p. 182 ( books.google.de ).

[4] Heinrich Wilhelm Dove : Repertorium der Physik: Containing a complete compilation of the newer advances in this science . tape 1 . Veit & Comp, 1837, p. 271 ( books.google.de ).

[5] Joseph Keithley (Ed.): The story of electrical and magnetic measurements: from 500 BC to the 1940s . John Wiley and Sons, 1999, ISBN 978-0-7803-1193-0 , pp. 143 .