The Life of S. F. B. Morse
Title | The Life of S. F. B. Morse PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Irenæus PRIME |
Publisher | |
Pages | 822 |
Release | 1875 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Life of Samuel F. B. Morse
Title | The Life of Samuel F. B. Morse PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Irenaeus Prime |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Pages | 794 |
Release | 2024-01-28 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 338524501X |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Lightning Man
Title | Lightning Man PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth Silverman |
Publisher | Knopf |
Pages | 512 |
Release | 2010-04-07 |
Genre | 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.
The American Leonardo
Title | The American Leonardo PDF eBook |
Author | Carleton Mabee |
Publisher | |
Pages | 496 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
Boss
Title | Boss PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Osborne |
Publisher | del Monte Publishing Company |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 2018-04-06 |
Genre | 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.
The Life of Samuel F. B. Morse, LL. D.
Title | The Life of Samuel F. B. Morse, LL. D. PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Irenæus Prime |
Publisher | |
Pages | 876 |
Release | 1875 |
Genre | Inventors |
ISBN |
The Life of Samuel F.B. Morse, LL. D., Inventor of the Electro-magnetic Recording Telegraph
Title | The Life of Samuel F.B. Morse, LL. D., Inventor of the Electro-magnetic Recording Telegraph PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Irenæus Prime |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Pages | 814 |
Release | 2024-03-18 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 3385388112 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.