Yale
Yale names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Yale ELIHU, an Anglo-American philanthropist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ELIHU, an Anglo-American philanthropist; born in Boston, Mass., April 5, 1648; son of an English colonist. He went to England while very young and was there educated, educated, never returning to America. About 1678 he went to the East Indies as a trader, and acquired great wealth. From 1687 to 1692 he was governor at Fort St. George, Madras. He gave to the Saybrook Collegiate School books and money valued at $4,000, a gift which resulted in the connection CANADIAN TROOPS IN THE OCCUPIED TERRITORY ON THE RHINE. FROM THE PAINTING BY SHELDON WILLIAMS Enc. Vol. 10-p. 468 Photo, British and Colonial Press ज्या Photo, Central News Photo Service A PICTURE, MADE BEFORE THE WAR, OF THE FAMOUS CLOTH HALL OF YPRES, BELGIUM, BEGUN IN THE YEAR 1200. BEHIND IT IS THE CATHEDRAL. AT THE RIGHT IS THE HOTEL DE VILLE British Official Photo YPRES AT THE CLOSE OF THE WAR. IN THE CENTER IS THE CATHEDRAL TOWER. AT THE RIGHT, THE CLOTH HALL © Underwood & Underwood PORT OF YOKOHAMA, JAPAN Ewing Galloway THE SISAL DRYING YARD AND BUILDINGS ON A YUCATAN PLANTATION Photo by George Grantham Bain THE FAMOUS RAILWAY BRIDGE OVER THE ZAMBEZI RIVER, SOUTH AFRICA, NEAR VICTORIA FALLS Gilliams Service E. M. Newman ZURICH, LAKE ZURICH, AND THE ALPS, SWITZERLAND of his name with the college after its removal to New Haven. His full-length portrait hangs in Alumni Hall, Yale University. He died in London, July 8, 1721, but was buried at Wrexham, Wales. His epitaph contains the following well-known lines: "Born in America, in Europe bred, In Africa travel'd, and in Asia wed, Where long he liv'd and thriv'd; at London dead."
Yale LINUS, an American inventor
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
LINUS, an American inventor; born in Salisbury, N. Y., April 4, 1821; applied himself for a while to portrait painting, but in 1850 began to study mechanical problems. In 1851 he patented a safety lock, and thereafter till his death was a recognized authority on all matters pertaining to to locks and safes. In the course of his work he became convinced of the necessity of abandoning the use of a key-hole as affording an easy means of introduction to the lock mechanism. This led to the adoption of a permanent dial and shaft as used in the combination locks, and subsequently to the perfection of what is known as the "clock" lock. His most notable invention was the double lock, which comprised two locks within a single case, and operated by the same or different combinations. He was the recipient of gold, silver, and bronze medals as first awards at various expositions. He died in New York City, Dec. 24, 1868.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's presented Elihu Yale in 1921 purely as the "Anglo-American philanthropist" whose $4,000 in books and money bought him a college's name; scholars since have documented that his Madras fortune was built partly on the East India Company's trade in enslaved people, and Yale University has publicly acknowledged that history, though a 2016 campaign to strip his name from the university failed (the university did rename Calhoun College in 2017). The 1921 Yale of "Alumni Hall" was also all-male: it admitted women to the undergraduate college only in 1969. Linus Yale Jr.'s entry has aged better — the pin-tumbler cylinder lock he perfected in the 1860s is still the standard door lock worldwide, and the Yale brand, spun out of Yale & Towne, is now owned by the Swedish group Assa Abloy.
Written for this edition, 2026.