In 1944 Carleton Mabee dubbed this telegraph pioneer "The American Leonardo"
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Carleton Mabee - Wikipedia  Carleton Mabee (December 24, 1914  December 18, 2014) was an American writer who won the 1944 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for The American Leonardo: The Life of Samuel F B. Morse.
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A History and Theory Reader - University of Oregon  Oct 10, 2005 ... Richard Stallman, pioneer of the Free Software movement, is unflinching in his belief ...... ing machine, the perforated Morse telegraph tape and the Gatling machine gun. ...... 1837, as quoted in Carleton Mabee, The American Leonardo: A Life of. Samuel F.B. Morse (New York: Alfred A. Knoff, 1944), 149.
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Media and the American Mind: From Morse to McLuhan - Monoskop  The intellectual and popular responses to the telegraph in- cluded the first ...... Putnam, 1852), pp. 7-12; Carleton Mabee, Samuel F. B. Morse: The American.
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The American Leonardo: A Life of Samuel F. B. Morse: Carleton ...  The American Leonardo: A Life of Samuel F. B. Morse [Carleton Mabee] on ... Morse, the artist and telegraph inventor of New York City and Pougheepsie, is no ... This book won the Pulitzer prize for biography for 1944, and I have now read 60...
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HistoryMagazineAugustSeptember2015 - Scribd  B. In Carleton Mabee's book. is retired from the City of Norfolk. The American Leonardo: A Life of Samuel F. including Cooper and his wife and ... in the foreground by August. the telegraph and the Morse code. art historians and the ...... Canadian addresses. he dubbed the colonial war The War of Jenkins' Ear. you are...
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- Telecommunication | National Museum of American History  Alfred Vail made this key, believed to be from the first American telegraph line, as an improvement on Samuel Morse's original transmitter. Vail helped Morse develop a practical system for sending and receiving coded electrical ... $30,000 for Morse to build an electric telegraph line between Washington and Baltimore.
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American Experience - PBS  Two young men in their twenties working in Boston thought they were on to something. Neither Alexander Graham Bell nor his assistant, Thomas Watson, was a trained ... One small contrivance considered at first to be a toy became almost ... to carry to the other end, and then get reproduced so you could hear it again.
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Leonardo da Vinci - Wikipedia  Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci more commonly Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardo (15 April .... One, which he regarded as an omen, was when a kite dropped from the sky and hovered over his cradle, its tail feathers brushing his face. ... Vasari, the 16th-century biographer of Renaissance painters, tells of how a local...
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Radio's First Message -- Fessenden and Marconi - IEEE Canada  Fessenden also felt that he could transmit and receive Morse code better by the ... Figure 1: Marconi's antenna system at Poldhu, Cornwall, December 1901. ... In the meantime he invented the synchronous rotary-spark-gap transmitter. ... His receiver however, awaiting reception of the spark signal, would in effect be tuned to...
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True Western History - VacationFun.com  French Canadian fur trader and mountain man Jacques La Ramee arrived in what ... first known as Fort John Buford and later named for General William P. Sanders. ... famed inventor Thomas Edison traveled to what is now the state of Wyoming to ... The University of Wyoming's Geological Museum displays one of only five...
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Leonardo da Vinci - Wikipedia  Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci more commonly Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardo (15 April ... He conceptualised flying machines, a type of armoured fighting vehicle, ... but he did not publish his findings and they had no direct influence on later science. ... In later life, Leonardo recorded only two childhood incidents.
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Samuel F.B. Morse - United States History  Samuel F.B. Morse led a superbly rendered life as a painter, sculptor, professor and photographer. He became best known, however, for his invention of the telegraph. ... Professor of Painting and Sculpture at the University of the City of New York. ... He unsuccessfully ran for mayor of New York on the Nativist ticket, and...
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National Balloon Museum > Hall of Fame > Malcolm Stevenson ...  Inducted into the U. S. Ballooning Hall of Fame ... He was also a collector of art, a licensed hot-air balloonist and a motorcycle enthusiast. ... At the time of his death, Mr. Forbes was Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Forbes magazine ... becoming the first person in history to successfully fly across America in a hot air balloon.
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Sigmund Freud's Sortie To America | American History Lives at ...  It had first been advocated during the 1890's by two Viennese doctors, Josef Breuer ... visit them during their twenty-year celebrations to be held in July, and give from ... Clark University was offering to contribute only four hundred dollars toward his ... Freud was well aware of the importance of his first series of lectures to an...
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Leonardo da Vinci - Wikipedia  Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci more commonly Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardo (15 April 1452  2 May 1519), was an Italian polymath whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, ... He later worked in Rome, Bologna and Venice, and he spent his last years in...
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Radio's First Message -- Fessenden and Marconi - IEEE Canada  Marconi's systems were based on spark technology, and he persevered with spark until ... Fessenden also felt that he could transmit and receive Morse code better by the ... Figure 1: Marconi's antenna system at Poldhu, Cornwall, December 1901. ..... that atmospheric noise crackling was in fact the Morse code letter 'S'.
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The first Integrated Circuit - PBS  One day in late July, Jack Kilby was sitting alone at Texas Instruments. ... In January of 1959, Robert Noyce was working at the small Fairchild ... they called "unitary circuits" and they also applied for a patent on the idea. ... On April 25, 1961, the patent office awarded the first patent for an integrated circuit to Robert Noyce...
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Lee de Forest - Wikipedia  Lee de Forest (August 26, 1873  June 30, 1961) was an American inventor, self-described ... His most famous invention, in 1906, was the three-element "Audion" (triode) .... At the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Valdemar Poulsen had .... John Stone Stone, contacted AT&T to arrange for de Forest to demonstrate his...
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Marconi - Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage  In 1896 he patented his first device for wireless telegraphy and in 1897 ... effectiveness of the system in coastal waters by sending a wireless message ... he eventually managed to raise an antenna with a kite for a short period of ... A drawing of the kite aerial used at Signal Hill for reception of the first Transatlantic wireless...
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John Bardeen - Wikipedia  John Bardeen (May 23, 1908  January 30, 1991) was an American physicist and electrical engineer, the only person to have won the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for the invention of the transistor; ... He graduated from high school at age fifteen, even though he could have...
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Reason Gallery C - American Treasures at the Library of Congress ...  Robert Fulton (17651815). ... Plunging boat [submarine], above and below water views. .... inventor, successfully demonstrated what he called wireless telegraphy. ..... When reliable film stock became available in 1893, commercial development of .... These twelve sketches were sent from Loewy's Paris office to help in the...