# From Immigrant to Inventor

Author: Pupin, Michael, 1858-1935

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/66886

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## Summary

I had read Tyndall’s lectures on light before I entered Columbia College, but upon reading them again I found there very many things which I had missed before. They did not, of course, describe satisfactorily the physical properties of the luminiferous ether--no lectures ever did--but they did describe, I thought, a bit of the history of physical sciences in the United States which was a revelation to me, and was, as I know now, a most important contribution to the history of the development of scientific thought in the United States. It deserves a prominent place in this narrative, because I had been a witness of this development during the past forty years.

## Chapters

- [did. The fundamental idea underlying his beautiful research and its](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/from-immigrant-to-inventor-66886/chapters/2/index.md)
- [volume VIII of _Nature_.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/from-immigrant-to-inventor-66886/chapters/1/index.md)