Samuel Morse: Dots and Dashes

di Jamie Glick (Autore)

AI Voice Digital Voice (Narratore)

Bedtime Biographies, 2026

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Before he gave the world instant communication, Samuel Morse was a painter — one of America's most promising portraitists, a founder of the National Academy of Design, a man who crossed the Atlantic chasing artistic glory. Then, on a ship home in 1832, he heard a conversation about electromagnetism and conceived, mid-ocean, a recording telegraph. This biography follows the whole improbable second act: the years of poverty and borrowed workshops, the partner Alfred Vail and the dot-dash code that still bears Morse's name, the long fight for a patent and for thirty thousand dollars from Congress, and the May morning in 1844 when the line from Washington to Baltimore clicked out "What hath God wrought." It follows the wire wars that came after — the rival companies, the infringement lawsuits that reached the Supreme Court, and the old age of the Patriarch of the Telegraph, honored by nations while he defended, to the end, his claim to have started it all. A painter who failed upward into immortality, and the invention that shrank the world. This is his story.

• Autore: Jamie Glick
• Narratore: AI Voice Digital Voice
• Durata in (hh:mm:ss): 10:36:36
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: Bedtime Biographies
• Lingua: Inglese
• EAN: 9798179318545