From Immigrant to Inventor by Michael Pupin

From Immigrant to Inventor by Michael Pupin

As I sat on the deck of the ship which was taking me to the universities of Europe, and watched its eagerness to get away from the busy harbor of New York, I thought of the day when, nine years before, I had arrived on the immigrant ship. I said to myself: Michael Pupin, the most valuable asset which you carried into New York harbor nine years ago was your knowledge of, and profound respect and admiration for, the best traditions of your race.the most valuable assets which you are now taking with you from New York harbor is your knowledge of, and profound respect and admiration for, the best traditions of your adopted country. Michael Pupin's was a genuinely American story, the lifelong journey of a boy from rural Serbia, from a town so tiny it appeared on no maps, who became one of the greatest scientists of the early 20th century, changing the lives of people the world over with his technological innovations-he invented the therapeutic X-ray and made telephone communications practical and inexpensive-and helping to invent the modern world we know today. First published in 1922, Pupin's autobiography won the Pulitzer Prize in 1924, but Pupin's insightful and incisive words are their own greatest recommendation. Also available from Cosimo Classics: Pupin's The New Reformation. American physicist and writer MICHAEL IDVORSKY PUPIN (1858-1935) was born in Serbia and emigrated to the United States as a teenager. As a professor and researcher at Columbia University, he invented sonar and made important discoveries in the fields of X-ray physics and telecommunications.

Samuel G. Bayne lived the American Dream to the full, and put his pen to work right from the romantic heart of America's emerging Oil and Banking sectors. The juxtaposition of banking and romance seems an unwieldy alliance in the literary compartments of postmodernism, but the author's diverse range of interests equipped him with the talent to dabble with the decompartmentalization known to visionaries, when an overview is called for. However, when you could have been a Wolf of Wall Street, but chose instead to Wear Prosperity with Humility, the Pyth of your Astronomy, deserves a second look. The author's financial genius was recognized by several American Presidents, and the 2016 Edition of his long forgotten autobiography, aspires to recall and celebrate the philanthropic support he staged for his native Ireland, which set such a powerful example for the many Irish-American business tycoons, who were to emulate his Irish American success. No amount of success comes without its failures and challenges along the way. As a result of the author's relaxed literary style, those failures and challenges, set against the back drop of America's emergence as a major superpower, can be savored and shared by modern readers in all parts of the world. The author's writing style bears witness to the intriguing emancipation of language that emerged as a result of so many English speaking immigrants choosing America, and Canada in particular, as their immigrant destination of choice. That circle is now being squared by the fascinating quest among US, Canadian and literary graduates from all around the English-speaking world, who look in places of ancestral heritage, for influences similar to what the pioneers of modern popular culture experienced, when they first landed on their various shores of immigration. As editors, our work on Derricks of Destiny 2016 aspired to seamlessly fix fractured elements, and to help the modern reader shoot the white-water rapids of Victorian rhetoric. We were also attempting to promote the re-writing of historically significant texts, in a manner sensitive to the diversity of modern multicultural readers and their dependents.

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ISBN 13	9781602069527
ISBN 10	1602069522
Title	From Immigrant to Inventor
Author	Michael Pupin
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Publisher	Cosimo Classics
Year published	2007-11-01
Number of pages	444
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