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Robert L. White (1927 – December 10, 2023) was an American professor of electrical engineering, and cochlear implant pioneer. [1]After becoming an expert in magnetics and a professor at Stanford, White switched to working on cochlear implants.
Stanford White was born in New York City in 1853, the son of Richard Grant White, a Shakespearean scholar, and Alexina Black (née Mease) (1830–1921). White's father was a dandy and Anglophile with little money but many connections to New York's art world, including the painter John LaFarge, the stained-glass artist Louis Comfort Tiffany and the landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.
Spiral Staircase by Stanford White in Entrance Hall. The Garrett Jacobs Mansion is a historic home located in the Mount Vernon neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland.Built in 1853 by Samuel George, the home gets its name from its last and most famous owner, Mary Frick Garrett Jacobs, who, with her husband Robert Garrett, transformed the home into a prime example of the Gilded Age mansions of the ...
They commissioned an architect named Stanford White in 1899 to build a summer cottage, and Rosecliff was completed in 1902. During her summers at Rosecliff, Oelrichs hosted guests for a fairytale ...
973 Fifth Avenue is one of only two Stanford White-designed Manhattan townhouses that remain as single-family residences today. While White's architectural legacy in New York City includes eight ...
It was built in 1903 by architect Stanford White. The 8,673-square-foot estate is for sale for just over $5 million. It was built in 1903 by architect Stanford White
Florence Evelyn Nesbit (December 25, 1884 or 1885 – January 17, 1967) was an American artists' model, chorus girl, and actress.She is best known for her career in New York City, as well as her husband, railroad scion Harry Kendall Thaw's obsessive and abusive fixation on both Nesbit and architect Stanford White, which resulted in White's murder by Thaw in 1906.
Stanford White was slain by Harry K. Thaw months before construction of the Colony Club was completed. The building was designed in the Federal Revival style, and has unusual brickwork done in a diaper pattern [3] as a notable feature of its facade.