Lightning Man_ The Accursed Life of Samuel F. B. Morse - Kenneth Silverman [268]
Reproduction of Morse’s original port-rule. Smithsonian Institution, neg. #26, 811.
Chappe semaphore. Musée de la Poste, Paris.
Page from Morse’s Sully sketchbook. Smithsonian Institution, neg. #17, 479C.
Alfred Vail. New York University Archives, Bobst Library, New York University.
Morse’S 1837 relay plan. Samuel Irenaeus Prime, The Life of Samuel F. B. Morse, LL. D. (1875).
Speedwell factory building, Morristown, New Jersey. Smithsonian Institution, neg. #72-4315.
Francis O. J. Smith. Collections of the Maine Historical Society (Coll. #30).
Sir Charles Wheatstone. Science and Society Picture Library, Science Museum, London.
Joseph Henry. Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-10693). Photographer unknown.
Original register used in the Baltimore-Washington trials of 1844. Smithsonian Institution, neg. #29, 651.
Telegraph key of the 1840s. Smithsonian Institution, neg. #27, 979.
Samuel F. B. Morse, ca. 1850. Edward Julian Nally Papers. Manuscript Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
Amos Kendall. Prints and Photographs Division, The Library of Congress (LC-USZ62–10501).
Ad for the Magnetic Telegraph Company. Washington Republic, February 1, 185a.
Henry O’Reilly. Courtesy of the Rochester Historical Society And Grace Cutler Rice.
Cooke-Wheatstone double-needle telegraph. Science & Society Picture Library, Science Museum, London.
House printing telegraph. Smithsonian Institution, neg. #30, 396.
Samuel Morse’s Wife and Daughter (1848). Daguerreotype by Samuel F. B. Morse. Collection of the New-York Historical Society, #6878.
Alexander Jackson Davis, plan for Morse home at Locust Grove (1851). Metropolitan Museum of Art Library, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924.
Cyrus W. Field (ca. 1860). Carte-de-visiteby Mathew Brady. Collection of the New-York Historical Society, #40401A.
Landing of cable from the stern of the Niagara. Illustrated London News, August 22, 1857.
Sectional view of the Niagara (ca. 1855). Engraving by unidentified artist. New-York Historical Society, #3747! A.
Morse in his New York City study. Prints and Photographs Division, The Library of Congress (LC-BH8201–963).
Morse ca. 1863. Prints and Photographs Division, The Library of Congress (LC-USZ62–11302).
Christian Schussele, Men of Progress (1862). Oil on canvas, 51 3/8 X 76 3/4 in. National Portrait Gallery (NPG 65. 60), Smithsonian Institution.
Morse Statue in Central Park. Edward Julian Nally Papers. Manuscript Division, Department of Rare Books And Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
Morse Celebration at the Academy Of Music. Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, JULY 1, 1871.
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Born and raised in Manhattan, Kenneth Silverman is Professor Emeritus of English at New York University. His other books include Timothy Dwight, A Cultural History of the American Revolution, The Life and Times of Cotton Mather, Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance, and HOUDINI!!!. He is the winner of the Bancroft Prize in American History, the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, the Edgar Award of the Mystery Writers of America, and the Christopher Literary Award of the Society of American Magicians.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Silverman, Kenneth.
Lightning man : the accursed life of Samuel F. B. Morse / by Kenneth Silverman.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-43437-1
1. Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791–1872.
2. Inventors—United States—Biography.
3. Artists—United States—Biography.