NYC - Columbia University - Philosophy Hall , upload feito originalmente por wallyg . Philosophy Hall, built in 1910, was one of the original buildings designed for Columbia university's Morningside Heights campus by Charles Follen McKim of McKim, Mead, and White. The 8-story, Italian Renaissance Revival building houses the English, Philosophy, and French departments, along with the university's writing center, part of its registrar's office, and the student lounge of its Graduate School of Arts and Sciences As a senior at Columbia University's new Philosophy Hall in 1912, Edwin H. Armstrong worked in the second-floor Hartley Laboratories on his first of several major developments in wireless communication technologies. After graduation the promising young engineer was assigned a small laboratory to continue his work, and eventually became the head of the Hartley Laboratory. Even after a series of inventions made him not only wealthy, but one of the foremost inventors i