Alfred Ely Beach
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Alfred Ely Beach was an American inventor, entrepreneur, publisher, and patent lawyer, born in Springfield, Massachusetts. He is known for his design of the earliest predecessor to the New York City S
Scientific American in 1845, a magazine that was a major force for the diffusion of innovations during the 19th century
Munn & Co. in 1859, patent office headquarters in Washington, next to the United States Patent Office
Broadway underground railway (1872), New York, next to City Hall
Socialites waiting in the Beach Pneumatic Transit station under Broadway
Moses Yale Beach
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Moses Yale Beach was an American inventor, entrepreneur, philanthropist and publisher, who founded the Associated Press, and is credited with originating print syndication. His fortune, as of 1846, am
Alfred Ely Beach
…for the blind and a system for heating water with solar power. Beach was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, and was the son of a prominent publisher, Moses Yale Beach, owner of the New York Sun and member of the Yale family. His brother William Yale Beach was a banker while his other brother, Moses S. Beach, took…
Offices of the New York Sun, 1893, on Nassau Street, Manhattan
Cunard Line steamship, used by "The New York Sun" to get their news from Europe
The "Naushon", a steamboat vessel co-owned by Moses Yale through the Associated Press, used for their news service from New York Harbor starting in 1846
Mexico City, Mexican–American War, featuring General Scott