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Inscribing Information, Inscribing Memories: Morse, Gallery of the Louvre, and the Electromagnetic Telegraph
Jean-Philippe Antoine
Description: Samuel F. B. Morse’s Gallery of the Louvre and the Art of Invention
Samuel F. B. Morse’s Gallery of the Louvre and the Art of Invention
~WHY DID the painter of Gallery of the Louvre (plate 1) invent the electromagnetic telegraph? To answer this question, we must go back to the fall of 1832, when these two inventions crossed paths.
Author
Jean-Philippe Antoine
PublisherTerra Foundation for American Art
Copyright© 2014, Terra Foundation for American Art
Related print edition pages: pp.111-125
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00223.008
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-20701
Chapter subject tags:Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872Pictures--CopyingTelegraph--HistoryMorse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872. Gallery of the Louvre

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Inscribing Information, Inscribing Memories: Morse, Gallery of the Louvre, and the Electromagnetic Telegraph