The Making of the Morgan

The Making of the Morgan
Author: Paul Spencer Byard
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2008
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780875981499

A century after its creation, in 2006, The Morgan Library & Museum, having undergone a major expansion and renovation designed by the Renzo Piano Building Workshop, reopened to wide critical and popular acclaim. The process leading up to that moment is documented in this book, which chronicles the 100-year transformation of a rarefied domain to a public museum, independent research library, musical venue, architectural landmark, and historic site.

Making a Morgan

Making a Morgan
Author: Andreas Hensing
Publisher: Veloce Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-01-04
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 9781845848736

In Making a Morgan the reader accompanies a very traditional model, a Morgan Plus 4, through it's build from customer's specification sheet to finished car. A process that, in this instance, will take 17 days. All Morgans can be bespoke, and the unique thing about 'our' car is that it will be built with a narrow frame front end that properly belongs to a 4/4 model. Invisible, except to Morgan cognoscenti, this non-standard front end means that the distance between the headlamps and the radiator grille is somewhat less than on the standard Plus 4 models. Most likely, this customer prefers understatement, but on the other hand didn't hold back when specifying the car's equipment: sports model without spare wheel, a 2-litre engine, polished wire-spoke wheels, door pockets, full leather interior in red, map light, hood, sidescreens, tonneau cover in black mohair, front and rear overriders on the bumpers, sun visors, and a radio with CD player. Oh, yes, before we forget, this car will be painted in the very traditional, dark, Irish Green paint, code L4069. Why there should be so many green Morgans is a mystery to us; after all, customers can choose from a palette of around 40,000 colours! Although the car will be delivered to a London Morgan dealership, what we have here is a model with left-hand drive steering. Most likely, the customer lives on the Continent. He, or she, doesn't know that a book is being written about their Morgan but, of course, the authors will see to it that the car's new owner gets an autographed copy of the book.

Making the Most of Your Life

Making the Most of Your Life
Author: John J. B. Morgan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2013-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781258888862

This is a new release of the original 1932 edition.

The Inventive Life of Charles Hill Morgan: The Power of Improvement In Industry, Education and Civic Life

The Inventive Life of Charles Hill Morgan: The Power of Improvement In Industry, Education and Civic Life
Author: Allison Chisolm
Publisher: TidePool Press, LLC
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2015-12-27
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0991452380

When Charles Hill Morgan learned how to use specialized drafting tools in the 1840s, his professional-grade compass precisely centered measurements for foundations and steam engines. His mastery of these tools led to a future of vast new possibilities. The strength of his ideas and the success of his inventions took him on a path that led from Lancaster's Factory Village in central Massachusetts to the courts of Europe. In the span of 80 years, Charles would go from living hand to mouth in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts to taking tea at Windsor Castle with the Queen of England.

Augustus De Morgan, Polymath

Augustus De Morgan, Polymath
Author: Karen Attar
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2024-09-04
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1805113291

When Augustus De Morgan died in 1871, he was described as ‘one of the profoundest mathematicians in the United Kingdom’ and even as ‘the greatest of our mathematicians’. But he was far more than just a mathematician. Because much of his voluminous written output on various subjects was scattered throughout journals and encyclopaedias, the breadth of his interests and contributions has been underappreciated by historians. Now, renewed interest in De Morgan’s life and work has coincided with the digitization of his extensive library, revealing the extent to which he pioneered and influenced the development of not merely mathematics but also logic, astronomy, the history of mathematics, education, and bibliography. This edited collection celebrates De Morgan as a polymath. Drawing together multiple elements of his activity from a range of publications and archives, its contributors re-assess his academic work, his place in his intellectual environment, and his legacy. The result offers new insight into De Morgan himself as well as the wider circles in which he moved, including his family life.

The Myth of Morgan la Fey

The Myth of Morgan la Fey
Author: K. Pérez
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2014-04-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137332980

The sister of King Arthur goes by many names: sorceress, kingmaker, death-wielder, mother, lover, goddess. The Myth of Morgan la Fey reveals her true identity through a comprehensive investigation of the famed enchantress' evolution - or devolution - over the past millennium and its implications for gender relations today.

Evelyn Pickering De Morgan and the Allegorical Body

Evelyn Pickering De Morgan and the Allegorical Body
Author: Elise Lawton Smith
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2002
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780838638835

"This study of her work confirms that the idea of progress toward the afterlife is a recurrent motif, arising from a personal involvement in the movement of Spiritualism and paralleling the automatic writing passages in The Result of an Experiment (1909), anonymously published by Evelyn and her husband William De Morgan.".

Dale Morgan on the Mormons

Dale Morgan on the Mormons
Author: Dale Morgan
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 481
Release: 2014-02-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 0806146710

Dale L. Morgan (1914–1971) remains one of the most respected historians of the American West—and his broad and influential career one of the least understood. Among today’s scholars his reputation rests largely on his studies of the fur trade and overland trails, yet throughout his life, Morgan’s perennial goal was to complete a history of the Latter Day Saints. In this volume—the second of a two-part set—Morgan’s writings on the Mormons finally receive the attention and analysis they merit. Dale Morgan on the Mormons is a far-reaching compilation of the historian’s published and unpublished writings. Edited and annotated by Morgan scholar Richard L. Saunders, the collection includes not only essays but also book reviews and bibliographic studies, many published here for the first time. At the heart of this second volume is a newly corrected presentation of Morgan’s unfinished magnum opus, “The Mormons.” Also included are a number of forgotten treasures, including Morgan’s still-definitive article on the Emmett Company, which headed west from Nauvoo in 1844 as the first party of westering Latter Day Saints; his privately distributed bibliography of the lesser Mormon churches; and the historian’s last published reflections on the Mormon experience. Throughout, Saunders provides informative introductions that place each of the writings or groups of writings into biographical and historical context.