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New Englander Wayne Cameron longed for the wide open spaces. He heard of the daring feat proposed by Western Union to join the two oceans by telegraph wire. He siezed the chance to work for them and to explore the Wild West. Soon the savagery of the Indians, the raging torrents and devastating prairie fires, the stampeding beasts and the bloody fueds betweent the ranchers and the settlers almost sent him packing.
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[2006]
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Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen murdered his wife and tried to escape London on a ship to America in the early twentieth century. He was caught in part due to the new invention of the wireless by Guglielmo Marconi, which was used on the ship. Larson draws from letters, memoirs, Scotland Yard reports, and other documents in telling the story and filling in its historical context of the Edwardian era.
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For thousands of years people had communicated across distances only as quickly as the fastest ship or horse could travel. Generations of innovators tried to develop speedier messaging devices. Then, in the mid-1800s, a few extraordinary pioneers at last succeeded. Their invention--the telegraph--nullified distance and shrank the world quicker and further than ever before, or since. This book tells the story of the telegraph's creation and remarkable...
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York (Laura Ruby) volume 3
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Description
Tess, Theo, and Jaime continue their investigation into the Old York Cipher while descovering plans for a mysterious invention.
5) Telegraph
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Sandcastle, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
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In Telegraph, young readers will learn all about telegraph communication from semaphore flags to Morse code to telegrams. Beautiful design, fascinating photographs, and simple text introduce new readers to the famous invention.
Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards.
Applied to STEM Concepts of Learning Principles.
Sandcastle is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
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Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Jackrabbit McCabe's unusually long legs have made him the fastest thing around, and he uses his speed for everything from racing against horses to fetching the doctor, but when the electric telegraph arrives in Windy Flats, Jackrabbit may have met his match.
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Super Sandcastle an imprint of ABDO Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
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Young readers will learn the history and the science behind the telegraph in Super Simple Telegraph Projects. Then do the science-based projects like making an electric magnet or learning a flag alphabet and Morse code. This book has a timeline, easy-to-follow steps, how-to pictures, and, best of all, it's written for kids!
8) Silent star
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Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
A young man feels burdened by his responsibilities at the telegram office as he is forced to bring the news of loved ones lost in the war to the residents of his town.
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Abbeville Press
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Explores the Santa Fe, Oregon-California, and Mormon trails as well as the routes into the American West forged by Lewis and Clark, the Pony Express, and the transcontinental telegraph and railroad, looking at the lives of the people who made the dangerous trek and the settlements that sprang up along the way.
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World Almanac Library
Pub. Date
2006
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This book explains how the invention of the telegraph and, later, the telephone led to the modern world of instant communications, discussing the struggles of Samuel Morse, Alexander Graham Bell, and the others who aided and influenced the development of these inventions.
13) Samuel Morse
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Super Sandcastle, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Samuel Morse invented Morse code and innovated the telegraph that changed the world! Kids can read this book to find out more about Morse, like that he was a painter first and how he became an inventor?
Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
Applied to STEM Concepts of Learning Principles.
Super Sandcastle is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
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"When word of the Pony Express being formed reached Clay Roswell in Texas, he decided to get a job as a rider. He was told his best chance for such a job was along the desert stretch in Nevada Territory, so that was where he headed. Along the trail, he met two brothers, Jess and Hoke Pickard, and agreed to team up with them, at least as far as Salt Lake. They made camp one night in Weber Cañon, east of Salt Lake, but as Roswell lay in his blankets,...
19) Bachelor girl
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[1999]
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Having left her parents' Missouri farm for good and trained to become a telegraph operator in Kansas City, teenage Rose moves out to San Francisco and joins the thousands of "bachelor girls" supporting themselves.
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W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First American edition.
Description
A comprehensive biography of the Indigenous Brazilian explorer, scientist, statesman and conservationist who guided Theodore Roosevelt on his journey down the River of Doubt chronicles his extraordinary career and his many achievements, including three nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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