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Lightning man : the accursed life of Samuel F.B. Morse / Kenneth Silverman.
Van Pelt Library TK5243.M7 S55 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Silverman, Kenneth.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872.
- Morse, Samuel Finley Breese.
- Inventors--United States--Biography.
- Inventors.
- United States.
- Artists--United States--Biography.
- Artists.
- Telegraph.
- Morse code.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 503 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.
- Contents:
- Finley
- 1 Geography 3
- 2 No One Uninspired by the Muses May Enter 21
- 3 A Terrible Harum-Scarum Fellow 40
- 4 An Affection of the Heart 67
- Morse
- 5 Il Diavolo 97
- 6 Anomalous, Nondescript, Hermaphrodite 124
- 7 High Attribute of Ubiquity 147
- 8 Traveling on a Snail's Back 174
- 9 Beware of Tricks 192
- 10 Hurrah Boys Whip Up the Mules 220
- Samuel F. B. Morse
- 11 Mere Men of Trade 249
- 12 Tantalus Still 274
- 13 The Great Telegraph Case 297
- 14 A True Social Fraternity 325
- 15 Can't! Sir, Can't! 346
- 16 Forward 370
- Commandador
- 17 Is This Treason? Is This Conspiracy? 391
- 18 Visions of Receding Glory 415
- Coda: 1872-2000 441
- Documentation 447.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-454) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0375401288
- OCLC:
- 51178126
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