William Ellery Channing was the foremost Unitarian preacher in the United States in the early nineteenth century and, along with Andrews Norton, one of Unitarianism's leading theologians. Channing was
Channing (1815), Gilbert Stuart
William Ellery Channing by Henry Cheever Pratt, 1857. Oil on canvas. Housed at Brown University.
Statue in Boston Public Garden
William Francis Channing was an American physician, scientist, and abolitionist known for inventing the telegraph fire alarm system and contributing to the development of the telephone. He published b
Portrait of Channing in 1847
Fire-alarm system installed at Boston City Hall in 1852.
1877 letter to Alexander Graham Bell discussing the most effective sizing and arrangement of bar magnet components for efficient sound transmission.