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External Resources
Electronic
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Samuel F. B. Morse
- Locust Grove: The Samuel Morse Historic Site.
http://www.lgny.org/ External - Samuel F. B. Morse. National Inventors Hall of Fame.
http://invent.org/hall-of-fame/ External - Those Inventive Americans: Samuel F. B. Morse. National Portrait Gallery: A Brush With History Teacher Resource Guide.
http://www.npg.si.edu/edu/brush/guide/unit2/morse.html External - Samuel F. B. Morse. Artcyclopedia.
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/morse_samuel_fb.html External
The Telegraph
- The Telegrapher Web Page: Research Resources for the History of Telegraphy and the Work of Women in the Telegraph Industry. Thomas Jepsen, 2001.
http://www.mindspring.com/~tjepsen/Teleg.html External - Telegraph Register Patent Model, patented May 1, 1849, patent number 6,420, by Samuel F. B.Morse (1791-1872). National Museum of American History: American Inventors and Inventions.
http://www.150.si.edu/150trav/remember/r819.htm External - Electromagnetic Telegraphy. R. Victor Jones, 1999.
http://people.deas.harvard.edu/~jones/cscie129/nu_lectures
/lecture5/elecmag_tel/morse_tel.html External
The Atlantic Cable
- IEEE Milestone of Engineering: Heart's Content Cable Station. IEEE Canada.
http://www.ewh.ieee.org/reg/7/diglib/library/hearts-content/heart.htm External
Other Figures in Telegraph History
- The Joseph Henry Papers Project. Smithsonian Institutional History Division.
http://siarchives.si.edu/history/jhp/jhenry.html External - Invention and Enterprise: Ezra Cornell, a Nineteenth-Century Life. Cornell University Library.
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/ezra-exhibit/ External
Other Resources
Books
- Coe, Lewis. The Telegraph: A History of Morse's Invention and Its Predecessors in the United States. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1993.
- Kloss, William. Samuel F. B. Morse. New York: H. N. Abrams in association with the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1988.
- Larkin, Oliver W. Samuel F. B. Morse and American Democratic Art. Boston: Little, Brown, 1954.
- Mabee, Carleton. The American Leonardo: A Life of Samuel F. B. Morse. Rev. ed. Fleischmanns, N.Y.: Purple Mountain Press, 2000.
- Morse, Samuel Finley Breese. Foreign Conspiracy against the Liberties of the United States: The Numbers of Brutus. 1835. Reprint, New York: Arno Press, 1977.
- ---. Imminent Dangers to the Free Institutions of the United States through Foreign Immigration. 1835. Reprint, New York: Arno Press, 1969.
- ---. Lectures on the Affinity of Painting with the Other Fine Arts. Ed. Nicolai Cikovsky Jr. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1983.
- ---. Samuel F. B. Morse: His Letters and Journals. Ed. Edward Lind Morse. New York: Da Capo Press, 1973.
- Prime, Samuel Irenaeus. The Life of Samuel F. B. Morse. 1875. Reprint, New York: Arno Press, 1974.
- Reid, James D. The Telegraph in America: Its Founders, Promoters, and Noted Men. 1879. Reprint, New York: Arno Press, 1974.
- Shiers, George, ed. The Electric Telegraph: An Historical Anthology. New York: Arno Press, 1977.
- Staiti, Paul J. Samuel F. B. Morse. Cambridge Monographs on American Artists. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
- ---, and Gary A. Reynolds. Samuel F. B. Morse. (Essays.) New York: Grey Art Gallery and Study Center/New York University, 1982.
Children's Books
- Hays, Wilma Pitchford. Samuel Morse and the Electronic Age. New York: Watts, 1966.
- ---. Samuel Morse and the Telegraph. Illustrated by Richard Mayhew. New York: F. Watts, 1960.
- Latham, Jean Lee. Samuel F. B. Morse, Artist-Inventor. Illustrated by Jo Polseno. New York: Chelsea Juniors, 1991.
- Quackenbush, Robert M. Quick, Annie, Give Me a Catchy Line!: A Story of Samuel F. B. Morse. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1983.
- Tiner, John Hudson. Samuel F. B. Morse: Artist with a Message. Illustrated by Shirley Young. Milford, Mich.: Mott Media, 1987.