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1 online resource |
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Acknowledgments; Notes on Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction; Section I; Knickerbocker Tales; 1; The American Experiment; 2; SPAAM (The Society for the Promotion of Agricultural Arts and Manufactures); 3; T. Romeyn Beck; 4; The Albany Academy; 5; The Big Ditch; 6; A Tale of Two Cities; 7; Portrait Painter; Morse in Albany; 8; The Man Who Sneezed So Singularly; Section II; Henry's Influence on Morse; 9; The New, Old School; 10; The Vision at Palmyra; 11; Ghost Story; 12; Wrap Artist; 13; The American Achievement; 14; Que Viva Mexico; 15; Endless Debate; 16; Quantity vs. Intensity; 17 |
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The Barnaby Mooer Side-Hill Plow18; Catching Colt; 19; Out of the "Fog" of Invention; 20; The Plow in Maine; 21; Sins of the Father; Section III; The Madman and the Telegrapher; 22; A Federal No-Show Job; 23; Cable Problems; 24; Big Confab at Little Relay; 25; The Trouble with Fisher & 26; On the Third Floor of the Patent Office; 27; The Burden of Big Science; 28; Bartlett's Contract; 29; Cross-Cut!; 30; A Fight Over Pole Insulators; 31; Out of the Frying Pan; Section IV; Relay Race; 32; The Magnetic Telegraph Company; 33; A Red Herring; 34; The Mule Kicks Back; 35; The State Fair; 36 |
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Raising Cash37; When the Going Gets Tough & 38; & The Tough Go to Europe; 39; Trompe l'œil; 40; "The Telegraph for Dummies"; 41; O'Reilly; 42; Saxton Faxton's Love-Hate Relationship; 43; Organization Man; 44; Crossing the Rubicon; Section V; Prodigal Son; 45; Audubon's Laundry; 46; Tit for Tat; 47; An Indispensable Plague; 48; The New York-Offing Line; 49; Rebirth of a Notion; Coda: King Edward of Kalamazoo; Afterword; Appendix A: Morse's Deposition; Appendix B: Questions Prepared for Professor Henry by Morse, 1839; Chapter Notes; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3 |
| Summary |
"The single-wire telegraph revolutionized long distance communication but it was not the brainchild of one inventor, Samuel Morse. Ezra Cornell and Joseph Henry made crucial contributions. This book presents Morse as primarily a businessman and consolidator of ideas who, in conflict with his associates, sought to present the telegraph as a uniform system under his sole imprimatur"-- Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872.
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Cornell, Ezra, 1807-1874.
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Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878.
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Cornell, Ezra, 1807-1874 |
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Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 |
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Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872 |
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Inventors -- United States -- Biography
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Telegraph -- United States -- History
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Science & Technology.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Mechanical.
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Inventors
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Inventors -- Biography
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Telegraph
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United States
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Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781476626819 |
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1476626812 |
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