101. Mark Twain And Technology Mark Twain and Technology A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur s Court If Mark Twain were alive today, he d probably be publishing interactive novels on http://fayette.k12.in.us/~cbeard/cy/

This image of "Sir Boss" from the original edition of Connecticut Yankee is used with the kind permission of the University of Virginia. If Mark Twain were alive today, he'd probably be publishing interactive novels on the Web and charging us a fee to read them. Like many people of his time, Twain embraced new technological developments and saw them as a measure of human potential. He wrote the first novel in America to be written on a typewriter Tom Sawyer One of the first telephones in Hartford, Connecticut, connected the Clemens household with the central switchboard. Twain also invested (and lost) thousands of dollars in the Paige Typesetting machine, which was supplanted by the Linotype just as videotape is being replaced by DVD. Given his interest, it is no surprise to find in his novels so many references to contemporary technology. Twain was also keenly aware, however, of the limitations of technology. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court shows technology improving communication, productivity, and personal hygiene. But it is unable to conquer what Twain considered the true problem: a society in which people do not think for themselves. Machines can be wonderful tools, Twain suggests, but they are only tools. The finest technology in all the realm does not excuse us from exercising our own judgment, a theme Twain would doubtless return to were he publishing today. As we enter a new millennium, we take for granted much of what was new and marvelous to the people of Twain's era. Understanding the technological developments of Twain's lifetime (1835 - 1910) may provide greater appreciation of this novel, one of the first science fiction novels written in America.

102. Mark Twain Quotes - Mark Twain Quotations, Mark Twain Sayings Mark Twain (1835 1910). Be careful about reading health books. Mark Twain (1835 -1910). Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience this it the http://home.att.net/~quotations/twain.html

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105. American Experience | Ulysses S. Grant | People & Events | Samuel Langhorne Clem People Events Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 18351910. Samuel Langhorn Clemens (MarkTwain) An American loves his family. If he has any love left over for http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/grant/peopleevents/p_twain.html

An American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person he generally selects Mark Twain. Thomas Edison The world knows him as Mark Twain, the perpetually quotable writer of such classic American novels as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer . But some people don't know that Samuel Clemens was the name he was born with or that he published the Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant , one of the most popular books of the nineteenth century. Born in Florida, Missouri, in 1835, Samuel Clemens moved to Hannibal, Missouri, a Mississippi River town, when he was four. When Samuel was 11, his father died, and the boy went to work to help support his family. At 13, he began working as a printer's apprentice for his brother Orion, who published a newspaper in Hannibal. As a young man, Clemens worked as a printer in a number of towns and cities, including New York, Philadelphia, and St. Louis. For years, Samuel had written short, funny stories and tall tales about life in America. He had even published a few. But about 1857, on a trip down the Mississippi, he abandoned his writing to pursue a lifelong dream becoming a riverboat pilot. After 18 months of hard work, he earned his pilot's license. Altogether, Twain spent four years steaming up and down the Mississippi. When the Civil War broke out, Twain spent a few weeks in the Confederate army before resigning and heading to Nevada, where his brother Orion had been appointed territorial secretary. While there, Clemens began to write again and adopted the pen name "Mark Twain." A term used in river navigation, "mark twain" means water that is two fathoms (or about 12 feet) deep.

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