15 Facts About Gano Dunn

Gano Sillick Dunn was an electrical engineer who served as the president of Cooper Union.

Gano Dunn was an early chairman and CEO of the United States National Research Council.

Son of Civil War veteran General N Gano Dunn and Amelia Sillick, Gano Dunn was born in Yorkville, New York.

In 1883, when Gano was twelve, he accompanied the former Mrs Maria G Robins Caswell to Europe.

At the age of fifteen, while attending City College of New York, Gano Dunn began to work for as an operator for the Western Union Telegraph Company.

In 1884, under pressure from her "runaway husband", Mrs Dunn had been forced to transfer the property, then valued at $18,000, to General Dunn's office clerk, Henry G Hunt for a single dollar.

Gano Dunn declined Edison's job offer and continued pursuing his college degree.

In 1891, Gano Dunn received the first degree in Electrical engineering granted by Columbia University.

Gano Dunn was president of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers from 1911 to 1912.

Gano Dunn served as treasurer and later Chairman of Trustees of the Simplified Spelling Board.

Gano Dunn was the president of the Cooper Union from 1935 to 1951.

Gano Dunn served as the president of J G White Engineering since 1913 and was in Italy at the outbreak of World War I Americans stranded in Europe had fled from Austria, France, Spain, Switzerland and Serbia to Italy, trying to book passage back to the United States.

Each morning, Gano Dunn posted the bulletins from the wireless on the progress of the war.

Gano Dunn invented and patented many electronic and mechanical devices.

Gano Dunn was an elected member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society.