"Scientific American" Park Benjamin Jr Hand Signed Envelope For Sale

Up for sale "Scientific American" Park Benjamin Jr Hand Signed Envelope.

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 Applied Mechanics and Cyclopædia of Modern Mechanism.

He is also famous as the father-in-law of operatic tenor Enrico Caruso. Park Benjamin Jr. was born in New York in 1849.

His father, Park Benjamin Sr., was

extremely famous in his time, as a poet, editor and founder of several

newspapers. Park graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1867 and published a

book of his etchings of the academy that year. He resigned from the Navy, and

after a year at law school was admitted to the New York Bar in 1870. He studied

science at Union College and received his Ph.D. in 1877. Before completing his

doctorate he was assistant editor of Scientific American (1872–78)

and then editor-in-chief of Appleton's Cyclopaedia of Applied Mechanics (1879–96).

By the time Benjamin began working at Scientific American it

had become more associated with the commercial side of science and patenting of

inventions. He was editor when Thomas Edison brought in his phonograph to the patent

agency, and its uses were for the first time described in an 1877 issue. Both

Edison and younger brother Dr. George Benjamin were contributors to Appleton's

when P.B. began editing.