Samuel F.B. Morse
Author: Judy Alter
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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.
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Author: Judy Alter
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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: Jean Lee Latham
Publisher:
Published: 1961
Total Pages: 88
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA brief biography of the inventor of the telegraph and Morse Code, who planned from early childhood to be a painter of great historical pictures but first won recognition as a portrait painter.
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 Irenaeus Prime
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2024-01-28
Total Pages: 794
ISBN-13: 338524501X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Author: Paul J. Staiti
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 0
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Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Published: 1914-01-01
Total Pages: 1303
ISBN-13: 1465549196
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Samuel Finley Breese Morse (Artist, Inventor, United States)
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Published: 1914
Total Pages: 608
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Published: 2000*
Total Pages: 11
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Published: 1914
Total Pages: 502
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