Cooper Hewitt

Cooper Hewitt can refer to:

  • Peter Cooper Hewitt, inventor of the mercury-vapor discharge lamp.
  • Cooper–Hewitt, National Design Museum, a museum of the Smithsonian Institution dedicated to design.

Famous quotes containing the words cooper and/or hewitt:

    “A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.”
    —James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)

    “The decision to have a child is both a private and a public decision, for children are our collective future.”
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