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Bell, Alexander Graham 1847-1922 Bell, Alexander Graham 1847-1922 Juvenile literature Inventors United States Biography Inventors United States Biography Juvenile literature Morse code Morse, Samuel Finley Breese 1791-1872 Murder Investigation Great Britain Case studies Telegraph Telegraph, Wireless Marconi system History United StatesDavis, Lynn
Summary: Presents the story of how an eccentric young artist became the inventor of the first telegraph system.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Super Sandcastle, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MORRuby, Laura
Summary: It was only a few days ago that Tess Biedermann, Theo Biedermann, and Jaime Cruz, along with a mysterious figure from the past, managed to survive an assault on the location of the latest clue in the Morningstarr cipher -- and, in the process, made a shocking discovery about their own connection to this one-hundred-sixty-year-old enigma. Now the friends are divided. Tess and Theo have no idea...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RUBQuick, Amanda
Summary: Former trapeze artist Amalie Vaughn moved to Burning Cove to reinvent herself, but after spending her inheritance on a mansion with the intention of turning it into a bed-and-breakfast, she learns that the villa is said to be cursed. When the first guest, Dr. Norman Pickwell, is murdered by his robot invention during a sold-out demonstration, rumors circulate that the curse is real. In the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC QUIRozier, Lucy Margaret.
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ROZLarson, Erik.
Summary: Dual stories of two disparate men, one a genius, and the other a killer. The geuius is Guglielmo Marconi, inventor of wireless communication. The murderer is the notorious Englishman, Dr. H. H. Crippen. Their lives intersect during the criminal chase.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 364.1523 LARLarson, Erik.
Summary: In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men--Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication--whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases of all time. - goodreads
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.15 LarCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 LARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 LARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Crime LarsonBittner, Mark.
Contents: A rolling stone -- Mansion on the hill -- A joyful encounter -- A question of trust -- Mandela -- The science of it -- Dogen -- Everything changes -- Bucky -- Paco and company -- A walk on the wild side -- Rage against the light -- Tupelo -- Back out in the world -- Free as a bird -- Fleeting happiness -- Snyder -- Act naturally -- Consiousness explained -- A late fledge.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.6865 BITMacBride, Roger Lea
Summary: 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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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MACSilverman, Kenneth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 621.383 SILBrands, H. W.
Summary: "What do moral people do when democracy countenances evil? The question, implicit in the idea that people can govern themselves, came to a head in America at the middle of the nineteenth century, in the struggle over slavery. John Brown's answer was violence--violence of a sort some in later generations would call terrorism. Brown was a deeply religious man who heard the God of the Old...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 326.8 BRAIves, Rob.
Summary: Make a robot from a toothbrush, send Morse code messages by telegraph, and create your own lightning! These amazing science projects use readily available items and have simple step-by-step instructions. Discover the science behind each quick experiment, and have fun showing your friends and family. It moves, it spins, it flashes, it glows--it's electricity!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hungry Tomato 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 537 IVEMcMurtry, Larry.
Summary: Recounts myths of the closing decades of the western frontier viewed through the eyes of Nellie Courtright and her brother Jackson, orphans that make good in the town of Rita Blanca in what would become the Oklahoma Panhandle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP W MCMHiggins, Gary.
Contents: Thicker than a smokey -- It didn't take too long -- Windy child -- Telegraph towers -- I can't sleep at night -- Cuckoo -- I pick notes from the sky -- Stable the spuds -- Down on the farm -- Unable to fly -- Looking for June.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Nufusmoon 1973
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL POP/ROCK HIGLusine.
Summary: 2013 release, the third full length from Seattle-based electronic pop & experimental electronic producer Jeff McIlwain AKA Lusine. As with all of his work as Lusine, this is a release characterized by diversity and coherency. It's an album that's both cerebral and visceral, a record that's both rewarding of a serious headphone session and also warm and melodic enough to make listening as...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Ghostly Int'l 2013
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Contents: Telegraph road 14:15. -- Private investigations 6:45. -- Industrial disease 5:49. -- Love over gold 6:16. -- It never rains 7:54.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Records 1982
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DIRDavis, Lynn
Summary: Discusses the life of Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, an invention that changed the world.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Super Sandcastle, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Gifts or Creatures
Contents: Woodrow -- Relicts & ghosts -- Gospel of glaciers -- Lake Sturgeon -- Blind pigs -- Leadlines -- Telegraph tramp -- Ram's horn -- American pockets -- Royal robe -- Ship of the clouds
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: CD Baby
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LOCAL GIFEimer, David
Summary: The Beijing correspondent for the Sunday Telegraph describes his trip to the remotest parts of the country far away from the capital, including the Islamic area of Xinjiang province, the forbidden zone of Tibet and Route 219, which borders India.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014