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Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922

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Park Benjamin (1849-1922) was an American patent lawyer and writer. He was born in New York City, graduated at the United States Naval Academy in 1867, resigned from the Navy in 1869, and graduated at the Albany Law School in the following year. He was associate editor of The Scientific American from 1872 to 1878 and subsequently edited Appleton's Cyclopedia of Applied Mechanics and Cyclopœdia of Modern Mechanism. Besides numerous magazine articles dealing for the most part with scientific subjects, he published:

  • Shakings or Etchings from the United States Naval Academy (1867)
  • Wrinkles and Recipes (1875)
  • The End of New York (1881)
  • The Age of Electricity (1886)
  • The Voltaic Cell (1892)
  • The History of Electricity (1895)
  • History of the United States Naval Academy (1900)
  • Modern Mechanism (1905)

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  • This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.

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