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Warren, Samuel Edward

educator, author, was born Oct. 31, 1831, in Newton, Mass. During 1854-72 he was professor in the Rensselaer Polytechnic institute of Troy, N. Y.; and during 1872- 75 in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of a series of text books, comprising a dozen books, principally on geometric subjects; and has contributed on educational subjects to current reviews and periodicals. Elementary Projection Drawing; General Problems of Shades and Shadows; Problems in Stone Cutting; Descriptive Geometry; Machine Drawing; and The Sunday Question, are among his published works.

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