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.

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