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Magie may refer to: *Bob Magie Jr., American curler *Elizabeth Magie (1866–1948), American game designer *William Francis Magie (1858–1943), American physicist, a founder of the American Physical Society *Magie Dominic (born 1944), Canadian poet and artist from Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador See also * {{disambiguation, surname, given name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Magie Jr
Robert H. Magie Jr. (May 9, 1914 – March 27, 2000) was an American curler. He was a and a 1964 United States men's champion. Magie was an insurance agent and a scratch golfer. Teams References External links * Robert H Magie Junior in the 1940 Census , Ancestry® 1914 births 2000 deaths American male curlers American curling champions {{US-curling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Magie
Elizabeth J. Magie Phillips (''née'' Magie; May 9, 1866 – March 2, 1948) was an American game designer, writer, feminist, and Georgist. She invented ''The Landlord's Game'', the precursor to ''Monopoly'', to illustrate teachings of the progressive era economist Henry George. Life and occupations Elizabeth J. Magie was born in Macomb, Illinois, in 1866 to Mary Jane (née Ritchie) Magie and James K. Magie, a newspaper publisher and an abolitionist who accompanied Abraham Lincoln as he traveled around Illinois in the late 1850s debating politics with Stephen Douglas. After moving to the D.C. and Maryland area in the early 1880s, she worked as a stenographer and typist at the Dead Letter Office. She was also a short story and poetry writer, comedian, stage actress, feminist, and engineer. At the age of 26, Magie received a patent for her invention that made the typewriting process easier by allowing paper to go through the rollers more easily. At the time, women were credited wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Francis Magie
William Francis Magie (1858–1943) was an American physicist, a founder of the American Physical Society The American Physical Society (APS) is a not-for-profit membership organization of professionals in physics and related disciplines, comprising nearly fifty divisions, sections, and other units. Its mission is the advancement and diffusion of k ... (president from 1910–12) and the first professor of physics at Princeton University, where he had graduated (class valedictorian, 1879) and where he served for two decades as dean of the faculty. His papers on the contact angle of liquids and solids and on the specific heat of solutions were notable, as was his text ''Principles of Physics''. Personal views Magie served as the president of the Men's Anti-Suffrage League of New Jersey. In this capacity, he argued that women's suffrage would ruin the family structure, destroy gender roles, and "undermine civilization." Selected works *Magie, William Francis, editor, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
