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Haggin, Ben Ali American (1882-1951) PORTRAIT

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Haggin, Ben Ali American (1882-1951) PORTRAIT
Haggin, Ben Ali American (1882-1951) PORTRAIT OF ELLEN H. FARNSWORTH LOOMIS OF DEDHAM, MASS. oil on canvas signed: lower left H60² W40² * Provenance: Ellen H. Farnsworth of Dedham, Massachusetts. The Farnsworth¹s were major wool merchants with England and Australia. Their son and Ellen¹s brother were killed in the French Foreign Legion and the family endowed the Farnsworth Room at the Weidner Library at Harvard University. She was born July 26, 1889 and died in 1975. She married Major Alfred Lee Loomis (November 4, 1887 - August 11, 1975) during the teens of 1900. He went to Yale and Harvard Law School, was the editor of the Law Review, graduate of the class of 1912. Harvard cum Laude. He worked with Henry L. Stimson in the law firm: Winthrop& Stimson. During World War I, he was in experimental ballistics research at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, and invented the Aberdeen Chronograph which measures the velocity of artillery shells. After the war he joined Landon K. Throne and started Bon Bright & Company which financed most of the public utilities in the United States. One of his investments was 22,000 acres of Hilton Head known as Honey Horn early in the 20th century, before it became a vacation mecca. He co-authored over 70 papers at the Tuxedo Park Laboratory focused on Ultrasonics. He is one of the two [Fathers of Ultrasonics] President Roosevelt appointed him to the National Defense Committee and he invented Loran-Long Range Navigation which was crucial for success during the WWII Naval Fronts. Loomis laboratories was a private facility where Einstein worked with others, and had its own Short Clock. Loomis worked with the Tizard Commission on the development of radar. He consulted on the Manhattan Project and worked with the Secretary of War Office under Roosevelt. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences when he was only 53, The American Physical Society, and the American Academy of the Advancement of Science. He was also on the board of trustees of MIT, Carnegie Mellon and the Rand Corporation.
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