The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . onnected with the U. S. coast survey. In1848 he was appointed assistant examiner in theU. S. patent office, and in 1851 was promoted to beprincipal, examiner. At a later date he wa
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . onnected with the U. S. coast survey. In1848 he was appointed assistant examiner in theU. S. patent office, and in 1851 was promoted to beprincipal, examiner. At a later date he was againconnected with the coast survey, and from 1869 un-til his death was an attache of the bureau of weightsand measures. Mr. Lane made a number of impor-tant mechanical and optical inventions, was long amember of the National academy, and at an earlyage attained high rank as a scientist. In 1869 hewas a member of the U. S. expedition that observedthe total solar eclipse at Des Moines, la.,, and in1870 was sent for the same purpose to Catania, SpainHe gave much time to the study of electricity, andhis published writings include: memoirs On theLaw of Electric Induction in Metals (1846), andOn the Law of Induction of an Electric Currenton Itself (1848). He also published TheoreticalTemperature of the Sun(1870), and Descriptionof a New Form of Mercurial Horizon (1871). Hedied in Washington, D. C, May 3, 276 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPEDIA CASSEL, Abraham Harley, antiquarian andbibliophile, founder of the Cassel library, was bornnear Kulpsville, Montgomery county, Pa., Sept. 21,1830. Though he has spent almost his entire life atthis secluded spot, six miles from any railroad, fol-lowing the occupation of a farmer, he is well knownin this country and in Europe for his remarkableliterary attainments and his great success as a col-lector of rare books, pamphlets, papers, and manu-scripts Having acquired a vast fund of valuableinformation by his own individual efforts from themany th
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