Samuel Morse, That's Who!
Title | Samuel Morse, That's Who! PDF eBook |
Author | Tracy Nelson Maurer |
Publisher | Henry Holt and Company (BYR) |
Pages | 40 |
Release | 2019-06-25 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1250618398 |
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.
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.
Foreign Conspiracy Against the Liberties of the United States
Title | Foreign Conspiracy Against the Liberties of the United States PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Finley Breese Morse |
Publisher | |
Pages | 202 |
Release | 1836 |
Genre | United States |
ISBN |
The American Leonardo
Title | The American Leonardo PDF eBook |
Author | Carleton Mabee |
Publisher | |
Pages | 486 |
Release | 2013-10 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781494113834 |
This is a new release of the original 1944 edition.
Samuel Morse
Title | Samuel Morse PDF eBook |
Author | Lynn Davis |
Publisher | Super Sandcastle |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2015-08 |
Genre | Artists |
ISBN | 9781624037252 |
Presents the story of how an eccentric young artist became the inventor of the first telegraph system.
Samuel Morse Invented the Telegraph | U.S. Economy in the mid-1800s Grade 5 | Children's Computers & Technology Books
Title | Samuel Morse Invented the Telegraph | U.S. Economy in the mid-1800s Grade 5 | Children's Computers & Technology Books PDF eBook |
Author | Tech Tron |
Publisher | Speedy Publishing LLC |
Pages | 73 |
Release | 2020-12-31 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1541963466 |
Describe the invention of Samuel Morse in this book for fifth graders. How did the telegraph help lead the economic growth in the Northeast states? What pushed Morse to create this invention and how was it received in the mid-1800s? Read about the history of the invention and the inventor, too. Grab a copy of this book today.
Samuel F.B. Morse
Title | Samuel F.B. Morse PDF eBook |
Author | Judy Alter |
Publisher | |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781567664461 |
A biography of the artist and inventor who devised the world's first practical telegraph system.