When was Eunice Newton Foote born and where did she grow up?
Eunice Newton Foote was born on the 17th of July 1819 in Goshen, Connecticut. Her family moved to Ontario County in western New York by 1820.
Eunice Newton Foote was born on the 17th of July 1819 in Goshen, Connecticut. Her family moved to Ontario County in western New York by 1820.
Foote conducted experiments that demonstrated interactions between sunlight and different gases using an air pump with two glass cylinders containing mercury-in-glass thermometers. She found that the tube filled with carbon dioxide became much hotter than others when exposed to sunlight and noted that moisture levels impacted temperature results.
Eunice Newton Foote attended the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention as a member of the editorial committee. She signed the convention's Declaration of Sentiments which demanded social and legal rights equal to those of men including the right to vote.
Scientists generally agreed that biases against crediting women scientists led to documentation gaps about her contributions because she was a woman and an amateur scientist. Tyndall became the person most often credited with discovering the greenhouse effect while institutionalized neglect distorted the historical record.
Foote died on the 30th of September 1888 in Lenox, Massachusetts. She was buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.