The pyramid had come from another Continental currency note designed in 1778 by Hopkinson, this time the $ 50 note, which had a nearly identical pyramid and the motto " Perennis ".

Although they had bought the store, both Sam and Rose still spent another two years with Sam ’ s parents on Hopkinson Avenue in Brooklyn.

Hopkinson ’ s itemized bill, moreover, is the only contemporary claim that exists for creating the American flag.

The pyramid and Perennis motto had come from a $ 50 Continental currency bill designed by Francis Hopkinson .< ref > MacArthur, John D. ( 2011 ).

After his return, Francis Hopkinson operated a dry goods business in Philadelphia and married Ann Borden on September 1, 1768.

Hopkinson obtained a public appointment as a customs collector for New Castle, Delaware on May 1, 1772.

Congress refused on the pretext that many people were involved in the flag's design, and that Hopkinson was already paid as a public servant.

The design of the first Stars and Stripes by Hopkinson had the thirteen stars arranged in a " staggered " pattern technically known as quincuncial because it is based on the repetition of a motif of five units.

In the letter, Hopkinson noted that he hadn ’ t asked for any compensation for the designs, but was now looking for a reward: “ a Quarter Cask of the public Wine .” The board sent that letter on to Congress.

The Board cited several reasons for its action, including the fact that Hopkinson “ was not the only person consulted on those exhibitions of Fancy, and therefore cannot claim the sole merit of them and not entitled to the full sum charged .”

Although no " Hopkinson flags " exist from the time period, it is believed that his flag contained 13 red and white stripes and 13 white stars arranged symmetrically on a field of blue.

* Francis Hopkinson House, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Burlington County, New Jersey

Hopkinson had previously used the constellation and clouds on a $ 40 Continental currency note he designed in 1778.

The Water Power Association members: Abbott Lawrence, Edmund Bartlett, Thomas Hopkinson of Lowell, John Nesmith and Daniel Saunders, who had purchased control of Peter's Falls on the Merrimack River and hence controlled Bodwell's Falls the site of the present Great Stone Dam.

Hopkinson and three of his children, John Gustave, Alice and Lina Evelyn, were killed in 1898 in a mountaineering accident on the Petite Dent de Veisivi, Val d ' Herens, in the Pennine Alps, Switzerland.

Because Clark was highly vocal on his opinion that the colonies should have their independence, on June 21, 1776, they appointed him, along with John Hart, Francis Hopkinson, Richard Stockton, and John Witherspoon as new delegates.

His successor as commander of the 1st Airborne Division, Major-General George Hopkinson, had sold the commander of the British Eighth Army, General Bernard Montgomery, on Operation Ladbroke, a glider landing to seize the Ponte Grande road bridge south of Syracuse.

In the mid 1920s, Hopkinson took on a young Boston painter Pietro Pezzati as his assistant, who worked with him at his Fenway studio.

Hopkinson would pass on his studio to Pezzati when he died in October 1962, in Beverly, Massachusetts.

Initially the means of power was supplied to the tramcars by pairs of Hopkinson bow collectors ( still employed on the Snaefell Mountain Railway today, owing to its dependability in strong winds on the mountain ) but by the turn of the 20th century cars were fitted with trolley poles, the method still employed today.

1903: Birmingham born Patent Lawyer ' Bertram Hopkinson ' is elected to the Cambridge chair in mechanism and applied mechanics where he carries out early research on tank armour plating.

An electric glow discharge tube featuring its most important characteristics: ( a ) An anode and cathode at each end ( b ) Aston Dark Space ( c ) Cathode glow ( d ) Cathode dark space ( also called Crookes dark space, or Hittorf dark space ) ( e ) Negative glow ( f ) Faraday space ( g ) Positive column ( h ) Anode glow ( i ) Anode dark space. Hopkinson builds a team of researchers, one of whom is Harry Ricardo, the engineer who makes his name for his pioneering work on internal combustion engines.

Hopkinson encourages Ricardo to work on engines.

Sir William Siemens ( 1823 – 83 ) was briefly a Director and Siemens Bros. of London were appointed electrical engineers to the company, their representative being Dr Edward Hopkinson, who later went on to work on the Bessbrook and Newry Tramway and the City & South London Railway.

Hopkinson spent from May 1766 to August 1767 in England in hopes of becoming commissioner of customs for North America.

Hopkinson was an amateur author and songwriter at a time when Philadelphia and the colonies were not well known for the arts.

Bowles, A Handbook of Crocus and Colchicum for Gardeners, Martin Hopkinson 1924

During his second term, Hopkinson proposed that the Institution should make available the technical knowledge of electrical engineers for the defence of the country.

Clarke's Whylah Falls was selected for the 2002 edition of Canada Reads, where it was championed by Nalo Hopkinson.

After the American Revolution, the Society looked for leadership to Francis Hopkinson, one of the signatories of the Declaration of Independence.

To the right of Sir Edward stands Henry Hopkinson, private secretary to the Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Sir Alexander Cadogan ; Richard Casey, Minister Resident in the Middle East, is to the right of Lady Spears, with Mrs Ethel Casey to her left.

* John Hopkinson proposes the group flash system for distinguishing lighthouses.

It was created in 1956 for the diplomat and Conservative politician Henry Hopkinson.

From 1918 to 1950 the town gave its name to the Mossley constituency which returned a Member of Parliament ; for most of the period, the MP was Austin Hopkinson, who was notable for being elected as an Independent candidate.

Instead of allying himself with the local established painters, Hopkinson showed his work with the " Boston Five ", a group of young watercolorists though he continued to paint in oil for an elite clientele.

In 1898, Ewing took his wife and children to Switzerland for a mountaineering holiday with the family of noted Professor of Electrical Engineering at King's College, John Hopkinson.

Back in England, Tom Hopkinson recruited him to work for the newspaper Picture Post.

Years later Hopkinson said the greatest photos he ever received to lay out were Bert Hardy's images from the Korean War Battle of Incheon, which James Cameron wrote the article for.

The anthem was composed by Philip Phile in 1789 for the first inauguration of George Washington, titled " The President's March ", arranged with lyrics by Joseph Hopkinson in 1798.

The canal was sold by auction in 1963 and was bought by Frank Hopkinson of Conisbrough for the sum of £ 1, 950.

To show that African-Americans utilize rhythm as a way of resolving physical tension .” The Sugar Shack has been known to art critics for embodying the style of art composition known as " Black Romantic ," which, according to Natalie Hopkinson of The Washington Post, is the " visual-art equivalent of the Chitlin ' circuit.