Cooper Union
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The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, commonly known as Cooper Union, is a private college on Cooper Square in Manhattan, New York City. Peter Cooper founded the institution in 1859
The Cooper Union's Foundation Building at Cooper Square and Astor Place in 2019
The interior of the Great Hall, c. 2005
Cooper Union in 1876
Presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln February 27, 1860, the day of his famous Cooper Union speech in New York
Thomas Edison
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Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman known for his work on the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, electric power distribution and early motion pictures. The merger of the
Cooper Union
…Horace Greeley and William Cullen Bryant, and those who availed themselves of the institute's courses in its early days included Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Thomas Alva Edison and William Francis Deegan. The Cooper Union's free classes have evolved into three schools: the School of Art, the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture…
Edison, c. 1922
Edison in 1861
Group photo taken as a postcard of the employees in front of the factory at Edison's Newark Factory on Ward St in 1873. Edison is visible peeking out of the fourth floor window; he wrote that he was too busy working to come downstairs.
Edison with the second model of his phonograph in Mathew Brady's studio in Washington, D.C. in April 1878