Boston Firsts: 40 Feats of Innovation and Invention That Happened First in Boston and Helped Make America Great
40 Feats of Innovation and Invention That Happened First in Boston and Helped Make America Great
$45.00
- Paperback
276 pages
- Release Date
1 September 2018
Summary
Boston Firsts is about everything (well, almost!) that happened first in Boston and changed life elsewhere- from the first lighthouse and public library to the first madam and ready-made suit. Boston-based journalist and essayist Lynda Morgenroth has written forty original essays on the city’s long history of innovation, from the colonial era to the recent past. These lively takes on Boston’s innovative history range from the first use of ether in publicly performed painless surgery to the fi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780807071342 |
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| ISBN-10: | 080707134X |
| Author: | Lynda Morgenroth |
| Publisher: | Beacon Press |
| Imprint: | Beacon Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 276 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2018 |
| Weight: | 354g |
| Dimensions: | 16mm x 140mm x 216mm |
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Morgenroth colors this thrilling history with hip, current observations and makes you notice just how vast and varied our accomplishments and inventions are. -Mopsy Strange Kennedy, Improper Bostonian
About The Author
Lynda Morgenroth
Lynda Morgenroth is a Boston-based writer whose features have appeared in publications including the “Boston Globe, “the” New York Times,” “Yankee, The Atlantic, Orion,” and “New Age,” She lives in a “quirky, 113-year-old house” just north of Boston.
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