Dark Light
Subtitle: Electricity and Anxiety from the Telegraph to the X-ray
Publisher: Harvest Books
Published: April 18, 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780156032445
First sentence: When he was twenty-three, Samuel Finley Breese Morse wrote to his parents from England, where he had been studying and practicing art for two years, defying their wishes that he become a bookseller at home in Massachusetts.