The Life of S. F. B. Morse
Author : Samuel Irenæus PRIME
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Page : 822 pages
File Size : 10,73 MB
Release : 1875
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Author : Samuel Irenæus PRIME
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Page : 822 pages
File Size : 10,73 MB
Release : 1875
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Author : Kenneth Silverman
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 29,33 MB
Release : 2010-04-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307434370
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 : Samuel Irenaeus Prime
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 43,68 MB
Release : 2024-01-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385245001
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Author : Carleton Mabee
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Page : 496 pages
File Size : 27,56 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : Charles Osborne
Publisher : del Monte Publishing Company
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 23,84 MB
Release : 2018-04-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780692064719
The story of S.F.B. Morse, founder of Pebble Beach, California, an icon of the good life in his time. He was a big fish in a small pond, and he made that pond even more beautiful. He dominated the Monterey Peninsula for 50 years and his vision was the basis for the creation of one of the most attractive pieces of real estate in the world.
Author : Samuel Irenæus Prime
Publisher :
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 40,32 MB
Release : 1875
Category : Inventors
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Author : Samuel Irenæus Prime
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 814 pages
File Size : 50,96 MB
Release : 2024-03-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385388112
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Author : Samuel Irenèus Prime
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,95 MB
Release : 1875
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Author : Helen Nicolay
Publisher : New York ; London : D. Appleton-Century Company, incorporated
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 23,86 MB
Release : 1938
Category : Artists
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A biography of the artist and inventor who devised the world's first practical telegraph system.
Author : Samuel I. Prime
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Page : 776 pages
File Size : 44,10 MB
Release : 2003-01
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ISBN : 9780795031564