Gano Dunn

{{Short description|American academic administrator (1870–1953)}} {{Infobox scientist |name = Gano Dunn |image = GANO DUNN PLAQUE AT COOPER UNION 20140428.jpg |caption = Plaque honoring Gano Dunn at Cooper Union |birth_date = {{birth date|1870|10|18}} |birth_place = New York, New York, U.S.<ref name=vannevar_bush />{{rp|31}} |death_date = {{death date and age|1953|4|10|1870|10|18}} |death_place = |residence = |citizenship = |nationality = |ethnicity = |fields = |workplaces = J. G. White Engineering Corporation<ref> {{cite news |title=DUNN TO GET HOOVER MEDAL |newspaper=New York Sun |at=p. 10, col. 2-3 |quote=He was born in New York city[sic] and has been President of J. G. White Engineering Corporation since 1913. |url=https://ethw.org/w/images/6/63/Dunn_-_gano_dunn_edison_medalist.pdf |accessdate=7 October 2023 |via=IEEE Global History Network : Archives : Papers of Gano Dunn |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231007005706/https://ethw.org/w/images/6/63/Dunn_-_gano_dunn_edison_medalist.pdf |archive-date=7 October 2023 |date=4 October 1939 }}</ref> |alma_mater = City College of New York<ref name=edison_medalist />{{rp|page=[https://ethw.org/w/images/6/63/Dunn_-_gano_dunn_edison_medalist.pdf#page=4 6]|quote=CCNY: BS: 1889, ΦΒΚ, MS: 1897; Columbia: Electrical Engineer: 1891 }} Columbia University |doctoral_advisor = |academic_advisors = |doctoral_students = |notable_students = |known_for = |influences = |influenced = |awards = IEEE Edison Medal {{small|(1937)}}<ref name=edison_medalist>{{cite web |url=http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/images/6/63/Dunn_-_gano_dunn_edison_medalist.pdf |date=26 January 1938 |title=Gano Dunn : Edison Medalist, 1937 : Presentation Ceremonies at Winter Convention, American Institute of Electrical Engineers, New York, N. Y. |quote=I am overwhelmed by this honor, which has more meaning for me than anyone can ever know, for Thomas Alva Edison was one of the gods of my boyhood and from then on he has been one of the profoundest inspirations of my life.[...] I still cherish two of the first one-candlepower lamps that were ever made which Mr. Edison picked from a box and handed me as a present when I left. He did not complain that I did not take his job, and he afterward said I was right. |accessdate=1 August 2014 |via=IEEE Global History Network : Archives : Papers of Gano Dunn |archive-date=8 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140808043357/http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/images/6/63/Dunn_-_gano_dunn_edison_medalist.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>{{rp|5}}<br/>Hoover Medal {{small|(1940)}} |spouse = {{marriage|Julia Thurston Gardiner Gayley|1920|1937|end=her death}}<ref name=nytimes_gardiner_dunn_wedding >{{cite news |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1920/08/27/96897688.pdf |title=MRS. JULIA GAYLEY WED TO GANO DUNN; Daughter of the Late Curtis Crane Gardiner a Bride in Grace Church. |quote=Mrs. Julia Gardiner Gayley of 20 Washington Square North, daughter of the late Curtis Crane Gardiner of Gardiner's Island, was married to Gano Dunn of 117 West Fifty-eighth Street in Grace Church yesterday afternoon by the Rev. Dr. Charles Lewis Slattery, who came to this city from Lenox, Mass., for the occasion. |date=1920-08-27 }}</ref><ref name=julia_obituary_1937>{{cite news |url=http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/images/e/ea/Dunn_-_newspaper_clipping_regarding_death_of_julia_dunn.pdf |title=MRS. GANO DUNN;Wife of President of J. G. White Engineering Corporation |quote=Mrs. Julia Gardiner Dunn, wife of Gano Dunn, president of the J. G. White Engineering Corporation, died yesterday at her home 500 Park Avenue, after a long illness. |date=1937-05-13 |access-date=2015-02-15 |archive-date=2016-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304191608/http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/images/e/ea/Dunn_-_newspaper_clipping_regarding_death_of_julia_dunn.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> |callsign = |signature = |footnotes = }} '''Gano Sillick Dunn''' (October 18, 1870<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.cooper.edu/history/extended/hi00002.htm |title = Extended History: Chronology 1859-1876 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070710185210/http://www.cooper.edu/history/extended/hi00002.htm |quote = 1870 [...] Oct. 18: Birth of Gano Dunn. |archive-date = 10 July 2007 |access-date = 1 August 2014 |url-status = dead }}</ref> &ndash; April 10, 1953<ref> {{cite web |url=http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Gano_Dunn |title=Gano Dunn |author= |work=IEEE Global History Network |publisher=IEEE |accessdate=25 July 2011}}</ref>) was an American electrical engineer who served as the president of Cooper Union. He was an early chairman and CEO of the United States National Research Council.<ref name=edison_medalist />{{rp|page=[https://ethw.org/w/images/6/63/Dunn_-_gano_dunn_edison_medalist.pdf#page=5 8]|quote=The National Research Council felt the benefit of his association with it and from 1923 to 1928 he was its chairman and chief executive officer.}}<ref name=gano_dunn_alumni_award>{{cite web|url=http://alumniconnections.com/olc/filelib/CPN/email/Library/Gano_Dunn_Nomination_Form3.pdf|accessdate=2015-02-24|title=GANO DUNN AWARD|quote=Gano Dunn devoted a quarter-century of service to The Cooper Union. For fifteen of those twenty-five years, 1935-1951, he served as the President of the school while continuing to serve on the Board of Trustees. From 1948-1953 he served as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees.|archive-date=2011-07-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707122235/http://alumniconnections.com/olc/filelib/CPN/email/Library/Gano_Dunn_Nomination_Form3.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Early life and career== Son of Civil War veteran General N. Gano Dunn and Amelia Sillick,<ref> {{cite news |at=p. 5, col. 5 |title=MARRIED |newspaper=New York Tribune |publication-place=New York, N.Y. |date=1867-10-31 |quote=DUNN—SILLTCK—On Wednesday, Oct 30. at the Eighty-sixth-st. M.E. Church, by the Rev. John E. Gorse, N. Gano Dunn to Amelia S., youngest daughter of the late Rev. John A. Sillick. |url=http://fultonhistory.com/Newspapers%206/New%20York%20NY%20Tribune/New%20York%20NY%20Tribune%201867%20Sep%20-%20Dec%20Grayscale/New%20York%20NY%20Tribune%201867%20Sep%20-%20Dec%20Grayscale%20-%200438.pdf }}</ref><ref name=motter>{{cite book | last=Motter | first=H.L. | title=Who's Who in the World | location=Brooklyn, New York | publisher=William G. Hewitt Press | page=407 | date=1912| oclc=83798487 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I-wRAAAAYAAJ&q=amelia+sillick+colonel+n.+gano+dunn&pg=PA407 |accessdate=14 February 2015 }}</ref> Gano Dunn was born in Yorkville, New York. With a prospering law practice, General Dunn raised Gano and his younger brother Harris, across from Central Park, as befitted one of the "best-known lawyers in the city".<ref name=amelia_sillick_dunn_lawsuit> {{cite news | newspaper=The New York Times | author = | page = | title=N. Gano Dunn's Wife: THE HISTORY BROUGHT OUT IN A SUIT ABOUT A TITLE. | quote=Judge Ingraham, in the Special Term of the Supreme Court, yesterday, listened to a very graphic description of a period in the life of Gen. N. Gano Dunn, who left this city for Colorado about a year ago. | date= March 30, 1887 | url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1887/03/30/129103662.pdf | accessdate=June 7, 2010 }}</ref> Inspired by his paternal grandfather, schoolteacher and inventor Nathaniel Dunn, young Gano was encouraged in both scholarship and practical invention.<ref name=vannevar_bush> {{cite book |last=Bush |first=Vannevar |publisher=National Academy of Sciences |title=Gano Sillick Dunn, 1870—1953 : A Biographical Memoir |location=Washington, D.C. |date=1954 |url=http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/dunn-gano.pdf |accessdate=2015-02-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230107212352/https://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/dunn-gano.pdf |archive-date=7 Jan 2023 |url-status=live }}</ref>{{rp|page=[http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/dunn-gano.pdf#page=3 31]|quote=His grandfather, Nathaniel Dunn, a school teacher and inventor, who attended Bowdoin College with Longfellow and Hawthorne, probably stimulated the younger Gano's bent for construction and engineering.}}<ref>{{cite web |publisher=Bowdoin College Library Archives Image Gallery : GEORGE J. MITCHELL DEPARTMENT OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS & ARCHIVES |url= http://images.bowdoin.edu/items/show/5735 |title=Cut silhouette portrait of Nathaniel Dunn, Bowdoin Class of 1825. |work=College Persons and Groups : Class of 1825 |accessdate= 2015-02-14}} </ref>

In 1883, when Gano was twelve, he accompanied the former Mrs. Maria G. Robins Caswell to Europe. They were there met by General Dunn. With the General and Maria masquerading as man and wife, Gano traveled Europe for a year and half. By 1886, General Dunn's whereabouts were unknown to his wife Amelia and New York society.<ref name=general_dunn_obitutary> {{cite news | newspaper=The New York Times | author = | page = | title=DEATH OF N. GANO DUNN; A ONCE PROMINENT NEW-YORKER COMMITS SUICIDE. HE WAS WITHOUT MONEY AND DESPONDENT IN DENVER -- WOULD MAKE NO STATEMENT REGARDING THE CAUSE FOR THE RASH ACT -- THE STORY OF HIS CAREER. | quote = Gen. N. Gano Dunn, formerly of New-York City, shot himself in the head last night and died this afternoon at St. Luke's Hospital. The cause of his act still remains a mystery, as the General refused to make any statement before dying. He left a few lines in a note addressed to "Fanny B.," in which he talks of disappointed love, "Fanny B.'s " identity cannot be established. | date= August 14, 1892 | url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1892/08/14/104142945.pdf | accessdate=2015-02-14 }}</ref>

At the age of fifteen, while attending City College of New York, Gano began to work for as an operator for the Western Union Telegraph Company. During this period, in March 1887, Mrs. Maria Robins filed a lawsuit against Gano's mother, Mrs. Amelia S. Dunn, over a deed to a New York City property. 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. Hunt then transferred the deed to Mrs. Robins. Attempting to maintain her interests, Mrs. Dunn gave a second deed to her sister-in-law, who then transferred this second deed to Mrs. Dunn's sister. With affidavits filed by her estranged husband from Canada, and testimony from Mrs. Robins, the case stretched until November 1887. Mrs. Amelia Dunn finally won the lawsuit and the Hunt/Robins deed to the property was invalidated.<ref name=amelia_sillick_dunn_lawsuit /><ref name=1910_social_register> {{cite book |title=Social Register, New York, 1911 |publisher=Social Register Association |volume=XXV |number=1 |location=Bowling Green, 29 Broadway, New York City |date=November 1910

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YWJEAQAAMAAJ&q=amelia+sillick+colonol+n.+gano+dunn&pg=PA181 |accessdate=2015-02-15 |pages=181–182 |quote=Dunn, Mrs. N. Gano ... Miss Esther H. Sillick &#124; 319 W 94 }}</ref>

As a young college student, Dunn visited the laboratory of Thomas A. Edison. {{Blockquote|text="Out of an almost infinite kindness for young men who were struggling, Mr. Edison received me in the midst of some laboratory work he was doing in the coating of laminated armature plates. Seeming to be interested in the questions I asked him, he drew me out in turn, and spent an hour personally showing me over his lamp works. .. . At the end of the visit, he offered me a job."|sign=Gano Dunn|source=Edison Medalist, 1937 : Presentation Ceremonies at Winter Convention, American Institute of Electrical Engineers, New York, N. Y.".}} Dunn declined Edison's job offer and continued pursuing his college degree.<ref name=edison_medalist />

In 1889, the nineteen-year-old earned a Bachelor of Science degree while graduating Phi Beta Kappa.<ref name=edison_medalist /> Continuing his education at Columbia University, Dunn's life was changed by assisting Nikola Tesla.<ref name=corum_and_corum>{{cite web |title=Tesla's Connection to Columbia University |author=Kenneth L. Corum and James F. Corum, Ph.D. |url=http://www.teslasociety.com/columbia.pdf |accessdate=2015-02-15 |page=7 }}</ref> {{Blockquote|text="Tesla solved the greatest problem in electrical engineering of his time. . . . My contact as [Tesla’s] assistant at the historic Columbia University high frequency lecture afterward, has left an indelible impression and an inspiration which has influenced my life."|sign=Gano Dunn|source=Letter dated July, 1931}} Dunn and Columbia Professor Edwin Howard Armstrong both served as pallbearers at Tesla's funeral.<ref name=corum_and_corum />

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

His father's whereabouts remained unknown, until in August 1892, reporters appeared at the Dunn home with dispatches from Denver. Without money and thought to be insane, the former lawyer had shot himself and died. Gano quickly telegraphed Denver authorities to hold the body. With the intention to bring the body back home, Gano expressed to reporters the "sorrow that the scandal has dragged the family name through mire should now be revived by suicide".<ref name=general_dunn_obitutary /> Gano Dunn then put his father's scandals behind him. Vannevar Bush's biography of Gano simply states: "Dunn's father died before Gano had finished his education;".<ref name="vannevar_bush" />

Returning to CCNY, Dunn was one of two 1897 Master of Science graduates, alongside Stephen P. Duggan.<ref name=nyt_ccny_1897_06_24_graduation >{{cite news |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1897/06/25/102084511.pdf |title=City College Graduates : Many Degrees Conferred at the Commencement Exercises Held at Carnegie Hall : Mayor and Faculty Cheered |quote=The degrees were conferred as follows: Master of Sciences-Gano S. Dunn, Stephen P. Duggan |at= |newspaper=New York Times |publication-place=New York, N.Y. |date=1897-06-25 |accessdate=2015-02-14}}</ref>

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.<ref> {{cite news |url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1921-04-10/ed-1/seq-7/#date1=1921&index=0&rows=20&words=Dunn+Gano&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1922&proxtext=gano+dunn&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1 |title=Simplified Spelling Board Moves May 1 to Harvard |quote=Mr. Paine was elected treasurer, succeeding Gano Dunn, who was elected chairman of trustees. |at=p. 7, col. 4 |newspaper=New York Tribune |publication-place=New York, N.Y. |date=10 April 1921 |via=Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress. |accessdate=1 August 2014 }}</ref> He was the president of the Cooper Union from 1935 to 1951.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Collection: Annual Reports of The Cooper Union {{!}} The Cooper Union Archives & Special Collections |url=https://archives.cooper.edu/repositories/2/resources/10 |access-date=2023-08-22 |website=archives.cooper.edu}}</ref>

== Refugee ship ''Principe di Undine'' == 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.<ref name=nyt_1914_08_11_held_up_by_war> {{cite news |newspaper=New York Times |title=TOURISTS NEAR BY HELD UP BY WAR; 600 Americans in Bermuda Who Can't Get Home from Colony Now Under Martial Law. ABOUT THOSE IN EUROPE Some Making Their Way to London and Paris, but Others Find It Impossible to Travel. |quote=Reports from the Americans abroad indicate that most of them are now collected in a few large cities, where they are in comparative safety. |date=August 11, 1914 |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1914/08/11/101923705.pdf |accessdate=2018-12-21 }} </ref> With banks refusing to cash personal checks, Americans were short on funds. In Italy, a bank moratorium had been declared, with banks paying only "limited and small amounts daily".<ref name=behnke_principe_di_udine />{{rp|page=[https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/public/gdcmassbookdig/sailingofrefugee00behn/sailingofrefugee00behn.pdf#page=19 5]}}

A Committee of Guarantors with Dunn, as treasurer, pledged 500,000 francs, gold to secure the charter of the ship ''Principe di Undine'' from Genoa to New York City. Using their personal fortunes, aided by American Express's Genoa office and National City Bank of New York, made the initial 10% payment five minutes before the charter option expired. Within two days, 400 anxious Americans booked passage, with Gano Dunn collecting cash or confirming evidence of credit. Only 60,000 francs were available in cash, the rest being credit, with payment guaranteed by the Committee.<ref name=behnke_principe_di_udine >{{cite book |url=https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/public/gdcmassbookdig/sailingofrefugee00behn/sailingofrefugee00behn.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241109061905/https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/public/gdcmassbookdig/sailingofrefugee00behn/sailingofrefugee00behn.pdf |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-date=9 November 2024 |title=The sailing of a refugee ship; a little record of the voyage of the Principe di Udine from Genoa to New York in August, nineteen fourteen, during the first days of the European conflict |last=Behnke |first=Arno |location=New York |publisher=G. Schirmer, Inc. |year=1914 |quote=Dedication: To The Committee of Guarantors: MR R.A.C. SMITH, DR NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER, MR GANO DUNN, MR FREDERICK W VANDERBILT whose noble self sacrifice and steadfast patriotism made possible the refugee voyage of the Principe di Udine from Genoa August 12, 1914 |accessdate=9 November 2024 }}</ref>{{rp|p=[https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/public/gdcmassbookdig/sailingofrefugee00behn/sailingofrefugee00behn.pdf#page=21 7]}}

Dr. Butler, before sailing, had obtained permission from Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty to pass Gibraltar.<ref name=nyt>{{cite news | newspaper=The New York Times |title=ON BOARD THE STEAMER PRINCIPE DI UDINE, (by wireless via Cadiz, Spain.) Aug. 15. -- The steamship Principe di Udine with more than 400 Americans from Genoa passed Gibraltar at 7:30 tonight. |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1914/08/17/101756124.pdf |date=August 17, 1914 }}</ref> Challenged there by an English torpedo boat destroyer, the ''Principe di Undine'' was allowed to proceed into the Atlantic. 700 miles from New York, the ship was commanded to stop by an English warship. After verifying her cargo and passengers, the ship was allowed to proceed.

During the voyage, a series of lectures on various topics were organized, with Mr Gano Dunn speaking on wireless telegraphy.<ref name=behnke_principe_di_udine />{{rp|p=[https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/public/gdcmassbookdig/sailingofrefugee00behn/sailingofrefugee00behn.pdf#page=70 56]}} Each morning, Dunn posted the bulletins from the wireless on the progress of the war.

Concerned about their compatriots still stranded in Europe, the passengers voted to appoint a committee to inform public opinion and the United States Government of the conditions abroad. Arriving in New York on August 23, 1914,<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=New York Times |date=August 23, 1914 |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1914/08/23/104635809.pdf |title=REFUGEES ON ITALIAN LINER;Dr. Butler and Vanderbilts Among Those on the Principe Di Undine. }}</ref> Gano Dunn and the rest of the committee met with an assistant to the Secretary of State on Tuesday, August 25 and officially expressed to him their satisfaction with the steps the Government had taken at that time.<ref name="behnke_principe_di_udine" />{{rp|p=[https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/public/gdcmassbookdig/sailingofrefugee00behn/sailingofrefugee00behn.pdf#page=73 59]}}

==Marriage==

Among his fellow refugees aboard ship were Mrs. Julia Gardiner Gayley and her daughter Miss Florence Gayley of New York City.<ref name=behnke_principe_di_udine />{{rp|p=[https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/public/gdcmassbookdig/sailingofrefugee00behn/sailingofrefugee00behn.pdf#page=87 73]}}

In 1920, upon the death of her first husband, James Gayley,<ref name="nyt_1910_gayley_divorce"> {{cite news |title=MRS. GAYLEY ALSO SUES |newspaper=New York Times |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1910/02/24/118495646.pdf |date=February 24, 1910 }}</ref> Julia Thurston Gardiner Gayley married Gano Dunn.<ref name="nytimes_gardiner_dunn_wedding" /> The couple moved to her home at 20 Washington Square North.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2011/11/first-house-on-square-no-20-washington.html |title=The First House on the Square -- No. 20 Washington Square North |author=Tom Miller |date=10 November 2011 }}</ref>

==Inventions== Gano Dunn invented and patented many electronic and mechanical devices. * {{cite patent |country=US |number=797271 |status=patent |title=Electric Switch}} A Drum Sequencer Controller * {{cite patent |country=CA |number=103309 |status=patent |title=Machine for Bending Metal Strips Edgewise}} * {{cite patent |country=GB |number=190409874 |title=Improvements in Electric Switches}} * {{cite patent |country=GB |number=190413779 |status=patent|title=Improvements in Electrical Distribution particularly applicable for Controlling Electric Motors }} * {{cite patent |country=GB |number=190403919 |status=patent |title=Improvements in System of Speed Regulation for Electro-motor Driven Machinery. }} * {{cite patent |country=GB |number=190626193 |status=patent |title= Improvements in Machines for Bending Metal Strips Edgewise}} * {{cite patent|country=US |number=493375 |status=patent |title=Balanced Armature for Dynamo Electric Machines or Electric Motors and Method of Balancing Same }} * {{cite web|title=US design patent D0027098 : Frame for Dynamo |url=http://pdfpiw.uspto.gov/.piw?Docid=D0027098 }} * {{cite patent|country=US |number=654142 |status=patent |title=Automatic Electromagnetic Brake}} * {{cite patent|country=US |number=792762 |status=patent |title=Improvements in Dynamo Electric Machines}} * {{cite web|title=US Patents by Inventor Gano S Dunn |url=https://www.google.com/search?tbm=pts&hl=en&q=ininventor:%22Gano+S+Dunn%22 |accessdate=1 August 2014 }}

==Honors and awards== Dunn was an elected member of the United States National Academy of Sciences,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gano Dunn |url=http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/20000622.html |access-date=2023-08-22 |website=www.nasonline.org}}</ref> the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-02-09 |title=Gano Sillick Dunn |url=https://www.amacad.org/person/gano-sillick-dunn |access-date=2023-08-22 |website=American Academy of Arts & Sciences |language=en}}</ref> and the American Philosophical Society.<ref>{{Cite web |title=APS Member History |url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Gano+Dunn&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced |access-date=2023-08-22 |website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref>

==Legacy== In 1955, James A. Healy and Harris A. Dunn, in memory of Harris' late brother Gano, presented Colby College Library with a rare copy of the 1491 Nuremberg Chronicle.<ref name=colby_donation> {{cite journal |last=Humphry|first=James III |date=November 1955 |title=The Nuremberg Chronicle |journal=Colby Library Quarterly |series=4 |number=4 |pages=78–80 <!--Original page numbers at top of source page, digital reproduction adds page numbers 1-3 on the lower right of reproduction--> |url=http://digitalcommons.colby.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1473&context=cq |accessdate=2015-02-14 }} </ref>

==References== <references/>

==External links== * {{Cite web |title=Karl Taylor Compton at Inauguration of E. S. Burdell, 1938 |url=https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/collections/object/GCP-00000368?query=burdell&resultIndex=5 |access-date=2024-10-21 |website=MIT Museum |language=en}} '''Gano Dunn''' at Cooper Union Inauguration of Edwin S. Burdell * [http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Gano_Dunn IEEE Global History Network; Gano Dunn Biography] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20090813044701/http://www.cualumni.com/olc/pub/CPN/cpages/about/gano_award.jsp The Gano Dunn Award] Cooper Union Alumni Association * [http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/dunn-gano.pdf National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir] * {{Cite web |date=2020-09-29 |title=SS Principe di Udine Passenger List 12 August 1914 {{!}} GG Archives |url=https://www.ggarchives.com/OceanTravel/Passengers/ItalianLines/PrincipeDiUdine-PassengerList-1914-08-12.html|url-status=live|archive-date=17 June 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240617193256/https://www.ggarchives.com/OceanTravel/Passengers/ItalianLines/PrincipeDiUdine-PassengerList-1914-08-12.html |access-date=2024-11-09 |publisher=Gjenvick-Gjønvik Archives}}

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