Böcker av George F. Botjer

The Morse telegraph launched the electronic telecommunications industry and reduced the travel time of information from days, weeks and months to seconds and minutes. It was one of the most important breakthrough inventions of all time. George F. Botjers examination of the creator of the telegraph is based on previously unpublished archival sources. It considers Samuel F. B. Morse, the creator of the first telegraph, and the ways in which place and time had an effect on the launch of his invention and his resulting fame, and how the invention affected the inventor himself.

Examines the economic, political, and cultural factors that influenced the unfolding of the fight for the Italian peninsula. This study provides documentation highlighting Axis defensive operations in Sicily, their takeover of Italy, and the internment of the Italian army along with data on economic conditions in German-occupied northern Italy.