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Author : Judy Alter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781567664461
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (644 download)
Download or read book Samuel F.B. Morse written by Judy Alter and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the artist and inventor who devised the world's first practical telegraph system.
Author : Kenneth Silverman
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307434370
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Lightning Man written by Kenneth Silverman and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2010-04-07 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 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 : Jean Lee Latham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Samuel F. B. Morse, Artist-inventor written by Jean Lee Latham and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 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)
ISBN 13 : 9780880621373
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (213 download)
Download or read book Samuel F.B. Morse written by John Hudson Tiner and published by Mott Media (MI). This book was released on 1987 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the artist and inventor who devised the world's first practical telegraph system.
Author : Paul J. Staiti
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (432 download)
Download or read book Samuel F. B. Morse written by Paul J. Staiti and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jean Lee Latham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Eli Whitney, Great Inventor written by Jean Lee Latham and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief biography of the inventor of a gin to seed upland cotton and of a way to mass produce musket locks.
Author : Jean Lee Latham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Samuel F. B. Morse, Artist-inventor written by Jean Lee Latham and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 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 : Terra Foundation for American Art
Publisher : Other Distribution
ISBN 13 : 9780300207613
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Samuel F.B. Morse's Gallery of the Louvre and the Art of Invention written by Terra Foundation for American Art and published by Other Distribution. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 : Samuel Finley Breese Morse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Foreign Conspiracy Against the Liberties of the United States written by Samuel Finley Breese Morse and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David McCullough
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416576894
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)
Download or read book The Greater Journey written by David McCullough and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 bestseller that tells the remarkable story of the generations of American artists, writers, and doctors who traveled to Paris, fell in love with the city and its people, and changed America through what they learned, told by America’s master historian, David McCullough. Not all pioneers went west. In The Greater Journey, David McCullough tells the enthralling, inspiring—and until now, untold—story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, and others who set off for Paris in the years between 1830 and 1900, hungry to learn and to excel in their work. What they achieved would profoundly alter American history. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first female doctor in America, was one of this intrepid band. Another was Charles Sumner, whose encounters with black students at the Sorbonne inspired him to become the most powerful voice for abolition in the US Senate. Friends James Fenimore Cooper and Samuel F. B. Morse worked unrelentingly every day in Paris, Morse not only painting what would be his masterpiece, but also bringing home his momentous idea for the telegraph. Harriet Beecher Stowe traveled to Paris to escape the controversy generated by her book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Three of the greatest American artists ever—sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, painters Mary Cassatt and John Singer Sargent—flourished in Paris, inspired by French masters. Almost forgotten today, the heroic American ambassador Elihu Washburne bravely remained at his post through the Franco-Prussian War, the long Siege of Paris, and the nightmare of the Commune. His vivid diary account of the starvation and suffering endured by the people of Paris is published here for the first time. Telling their stories with power and intimacy, McCullough brings us into the lives of remarkable men and women who, in Saint-Gaudens’ phrase, longed “to soar into the blue.”
Author : Laura Fecych Sprague
Publisher : Penn State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271084954
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (849 download)
Download or read book Rufus Porter's Curious World written by Laura Fecych Sprague and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of Rufus Porter, an enigmatic but astonishingly productive American artist, inventor, and publisher. Presents his life and work in the context of the cultural, social, and technological networks that shaped innovation and democracy during the antebellum era.
Author : Tracy Nelson Maurer
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 1250618398
Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (56 download)
Download or read book Samuel Morse, That's Who! written by Tracy Nelson Maurer and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writer 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 : Terra Foundation for American Art
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692212943
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Samuel F.B. Morse's Gallery of the Louvre written by Terra Foundation for American Art and published by . This book was released on 2014-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : New York Chamber of Commerce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Atlantic Cable Projectors written by New York Chamber of Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James D. Reid
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 920 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Telegraph in America written by James D. Reid and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is an often cited panoramic history of the telegraph which discusses the principal telegraph firms and the key persons within them. Throughout his work, Reid stresses the business and economic aspects of marketing this remarkable scientific invention. The importance of The Telegraph in America as a classic reference in the field is under-scored by the fact that the author was active in telegraphy throughout the period he discusses. He thus had a personal knowledge of persons and events under examination.
Author : Sarah Kate Gillespie
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262034107
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)
Download or read book The Early American Daguerreotype written by Sarah Kate Gillespie and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-02-12 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American daguerreotype as something completely new: a mechanical invention that produced an image, a hybrid of fine art and science and technology. The daguerreotype, invented in France, came to America in 1839. By 1851, this early photographic method had been improved by American daguerreotypists to such a degree that it was often referred to as “the American process.” The daguerreotype—now perhaps mostly associated with stiffly posed portraits of serious-visaged nineteenth-century personages—was an extremely detailed photographic image, produced though a complicated process involving a copper plate, light-sensitive chemicals, and mercury fumes. It was, as Sarah Kate Gillespie shows in this generously illustrated history, something wholly and remarkably new: a product of science and innovative technology that resulted in a visual object. It was a hybrid, with roots in both fine art and science, and it interacted in reciprocally formative ways with fine art, science, and technology. Gillespie maps the evolution of the daguerreotype, as medium and as profession, from its introduction to the ascendancy of the “American process,” tracing its relationship to other fields and the professionalization of those fields. She does so by recounting the activities of a series of American daguerreotypists, including fine artists, scientists, and mechanical tinkerers. She describes, for example, experiments undertaken by Samuel F. B. Morse as he made the transition from artist to inventor; how artists made use of the daguerreotype, both borrowing conventions from fine art and establishing new ones for a new medium; the use of the daguerreotype in various sciences, particularly astronomy; and technological innovators who drew on their work in the mechanical arts. By the 1860s, the daguerreotype had been supplanted by newer technologies. Its rise (and fall) represents an early instance of the ever-constant stream of emerging visual technologies.
Author : David Colbert
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 067976724X
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (797 download)
Download or read book Eyewitness to America written by David Colbert and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1998-07-28 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Jefferson complains about haggling over the Declaration of Independence ... Jack London guides us through the rubble of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake ... Langston Hughes visits the Scottsboro Boys on death row ... Andy Warhol paints the scene at Studio 54 ... John Seabrook receives e-mail from Bill Gates. Three hundred eyewitnesses -- some famous, some anonymous -- give their personal accounts of the great moments that make up our past, from Columbus to cyberspace, and infuse them with a freshness and urgency no historian can duplicate. David Colbert has brought together a multitude of voices to create a singularly rich American narrative. Here are the vivid impressions of men and women who were witnesses to and participants in these and other dramatic moments: the first colony in Virginia, the Salem witch trials, the Boston Tea Party, the Oklahoma land rush, the Scopes Trial, the bombing of Nagasaki, the lunch-counter sit-ins at the outset of the civil rights movement, New York City's Stonewall Riot, the fall of Saigon, and the 1992 Los Angeles riots. With unparalleled and thrilling immediacy, these excerpts from diaries, private letters, memoirs, and newspapers paint a fascinating picture of the evolving drama of American life.
