Ask the Chatbot Games & Quizzes History & Society Science & Tech Biographies Animals & Nature Geography & Travel Arts & Culture ProCon Money Videos
Charles Ellet
Table of Contents
Introduction References & Edit History Quick Facts & Related Topics
Discover
Young boys working in a thread spinning mill in Macon, Georgia, 1909. Boys are so small they have to climb onto the spinning frame to reach and fix broken threads and put back empty bobbins. Child labor. Industrial revolution
The Rise of the Machines: Pros and Cons of the Industrial Revolution
Attack on Pearl Harbor. December 7, 1941. Pearl Harbor infographic. World War II. Hawaii. United States. Japan. SPOTLIGHT VERSION
Attack on Pearl Harbor Timeline
King Cobra snake in Malaysia. (reptile)
9 of the World’s Deadliest Snakes
Vietnam War. U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson awards the Distinguished Service Cross to First Lieutenant Marty A. Hammer, during a visit to military personnel, Cam Ranh Bay, South Vietnam, October 26, 1966. President Johnson
Vietnam War Timeline
bird. mourning dove. pigeon and dove. Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura) family Columbidae.
Nikola Tesla's Weird Obsession with Pigeons
Chapter 4 pg 42 - Chapter header of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. Published in 1884 by The American Publishing Company
Periods of American Literature
The Lost Colony of Roanoke, North Carolina, where 115 people mysteriously disappeared c. 1590. John White discovers the word Croatoan carved onto a tree upon his return to the deserted Roanoke Colony in 1590
The Lost Colony of Roanoke

Charles Ellet: Facts & Related Content

verifiedCite
While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions.
Select Citation Style
Share
Share to social media
URL
https://www.britannica.com/facts/Charles-Ellet
Written and fact-checked by
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

The Information Architects maintain a master list of the topics included in the corpus of  Encyclopædia Britannica, and create and manage the relationships between them.
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Facts

Born January 1, 1810 • Pennsylvania
Died June 21, 1862 (aged 52) • Cairo • Illinois
John A. Roebling
John Augustus Roebling
American engineer
Roebling, Emily Warren
Emily Warren Roebling
American socialite, builder, and businesswoman
Engineer Gustav Lindenthal (second from right) and his chief assistant, Othmar Ammann (second from left), posing upon the completion of the Hell Gate Bridge in New York City, 1916.
Othmar Herman Ammann
American engineer
Washington Augustus Roebling, 1870
Washington Augustus Roebling
American engineer
Mackinac Bridge
David Barnard Steinman
American engineer
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
British engineer
Sir Marc Isambard Brunel
Sir Marc Isambard Brunel
French-British engineer
Thomas Telford
Thomas Telford
Scottish engineer
Marc Séguin, the Elder
French engineer
Sir Gilbert Roberts
British engineer
Julius Rosenberg
American engineer and spy
August Belmont, Jr.
American banker
Panama Canal: Miraflores Locks
John Frank Stevens
American engineer
Latrobe, Benjamin
Benjamin Latrobe
American architect
Jervis, John Bloomfield: Stourbridge Lion
John Bloomfield Jervis
American engineer
Octave Chanute
Octave Chanute
American engineer
Henry J. Kaiser
American industrialist
Charles Crocker
American businessman
Albert Fink
American engineer
Karl Terzaghi
American engineer