Pennsylvania University traces its beginning to the year 1740 when a trust was shaped to found the Philadelphia Charity School. In 1749, B. Franklin intorduced his opinion for a new kind of educational institution, that unlike many other American Colonial universities, would not concentrate on education for the priesthood, but would prepare students for public and business service. The suggested program of study would be the first liberal arts curriculum in the nation. When, in the year 1750, Franklin plus the first Trustees bought Pennsylvania’s first campus, they assumed the responsibility for the School (although it had not opened, the Trust was alive and well). The Charity School and the Academy opened in the year 1751.
Roughly 250 years later, the Univerity of Pennsylvania goes on to blaze educational trails. It is a home to the first medical school in the nation that added in 1874 a teaching hospital. In addition, Penn is the birth-place of some technological inventions. In the year 1946, Penn presented ENIAC, the first electronic, extensive, general-purpose digital computer in the world.
Besides ushering in some new ideas, Penn has greeted numerous leaders through its door. 9 signers of the Independence Declaration and 11 signers of the American Constitution are connected with this University. Eadweard James Muybridge, that pioneered motion photography, started his tests under Penn’s auspices. Since the year 1923, 15 university’s scholars have been prized with Nobel Awards. In the year 1994 J. Rodin was the first woman who was initiated President of the Ivy League institution.