Samuel F.B. Morse and the dawn of the age of electricity / George F. Botjer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Botjer, George F., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872.

Morse, Samuel Finley Breese.

Inventors--United States--Biography.

Inventors.

United States.

Painters--United States--Biography.

Painters.

Telegraph--History.

Telegraph.

History.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 133 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2015]

Summary:

The Morse telegraph launched the electronic telecommunications industry and reduced the travel time of information from days, weeks, and months to seconds and minutes. It was one of the most important breakthrough inventions of all time. George F. Botjer's examination of the creator of the telegraph is based on previously unpublished archival sources. It considers Samuel F. B. Morse, the creator of the first telegraph, and the ways in which place and time had an effect on the launch, of his invention and his resulting fame, and how the invention affected the inventor himself. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 An American Artist: Fame and Misfortune 1

2 Starving Artist Invents Telegraph in Greenwich Village Garret 21

3 From Wilderness to Empire: Morse and the System Builders 39

4 The Question of Origins and Originality: Did Morse Really Invent the Telegraph? 67

5 The Great Man Revered and Reviled 93

6 Locust Grove 109.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781498501408

1498501400

OCLC:

903195002