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Painting and Technology: Morse and the Visual Transmission of Intelligence
Richard Read
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
~MY TITLE PLAYS ON Morse’s prophecy of the electromagnetic telegraph: “If the presence of electricity can be made visible in any desired part of the circuit I see no reason why intelligence might not be transmitted instantaneously by...
Author
Richard Read
PublisherTerra Foundation for American Art
Copyright© 2014, Terra Foundation for American Art
Related print edition pages: pp.131-145
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00223.009
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-20702
Chapter subject tags:Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872Telegraph--HistoryMorse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872. Gallery of the LouvrePictures--CopyingArt and science

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Painting and Technology: Morse and the Visual Transmission of Intelligence