Samuel F.B. Morse
Author: John Hudson Tiner
Publisher: Mott Media (MI)
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780880621373
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA biography of the artist and inventor who devised the world's first practical telegraph system.
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Author: John Hudson Tiner
Publisher: Mott Media (MI)
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780880621373
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA biography of the artist and inventor who devised the world's first practical telegraph system.
Author: Kenneth Silverman
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2010-04-07
Total Pages: 512
ISBN-13: 0307434370
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this brilliantly conceived and written biography, Pulitzer Prize–winning Kenneth Silverman gives us the long and amazing life of the man eulogized by the New York Herald in 1872 as “perhaps the most illustrious American of his age.” Silverman presents Samuel Morse in all his complexity. There is the gifted and prolific painter (more than three hundred portraits and larger historical canvases) and pioneer photographer, who gave the first lectures on art in America, became the first Professor of Fine Arts at an American college (New York University), and founded the National Academy of Design. There is the republican idealist, prominent in antebellum politics, who ran for Congress and for mayor of New York. But most important, there is the inventor of the American electromagnetic telegraph, which earned Morse the name Lightning Man and brought him the fame he sought. In these pages, we witness the evolution of the great invention from its inception as an idea to its introduction to the world—an event that astonished Morse’s contemporaries and was considered the supreme expression of the country’s inventive genius. We see how it transformed commerce, journalism, transportation, military affairs, diplomacy, and the very shape of daily life, ushering in the modern era of communication. But we discover as well that Morse viewed his existence as accursed rather than illustrious, his every achievement seeming to end in loss and defeat: his most ambitious canvases went unsold; his beloved republic imploded into civil war, making it unlivable for him; and the commercial success of the telegraph engulfed him in lawsuits challenging the originality and ownership of his invention. Lightning Man is the first biography of Samuel F. B. Morse in sixty years. It is a revelation of the life of a fascinating and profoundly troubled American genius.
Author: Samuel Finley Breese Morse
Publisher:
Published: 1836
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Judy Alter
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9781567664461
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA biography of the artist and inventor who devised the world's first practical telegraph system.
Author: Carleton Mabee
Publisher:
Published: 2013-10
Total Pages: 486
ISBN-13: 9781494113834
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a new release of the original 1944 edition.
Author: Samuel F. B. Morse
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Published: 1914-01-01
Total Pages: 1303
ISBN-13: 1465549196
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Terra Foundation for American Art
Publisher: Other Distribution
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780300207613
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Known today primarily for his role in the development of the electromagnetic telegraph and Morse code, Samuel F.B. Morse began his career as a painter. His monumental Gallery of the Louvre was the culmination of an extended period of study in Europe"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Tracy Nelson Maurer
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Published: 2019-06-25
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 1250618398
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWriter Tracy Nelson Maurer and illustrator El Primo Ramón present a lively picture book biography of Samuel Morse that highlights how he revolutionized modern technology. Back in the 1800s, information traveled slowly. Who would dream of instant messages? Samuel Morse, that’s who! Who traveled to France, where the famous telegraph towers relayed 10,000 possible codes for messages depending on the signal arm positions—only if the weather was clear? Who imagined a system that would use electric pulses to instantly carry coded messages between two machines, rain or shine? Long before the first telephone, who changed communication forever? Samuel Morse, that’s who! This dynamic and substantive biography celebrates an early technology pioneer.
Author: Samuel Finley Breese Morse
Publisher:
Published: 1914
Total Pages: 616
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Samuel Irenæus PRIME
Publisher:
Published: 1875
Total Pages: 822
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