Martha Coston and the Box of Light

Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States, 19th Century
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Author: Tom Lonergan ISBN: 9781475983319
Publisher: iUniverse Publication: March 29, 2013
Imprint: iUniverse Language: English
Author: Tom Lonergan
ISBN: 9781475983319
Publisher: iUniverse
Publication: March 29, 2013
Imprint: iUniverse
Language: English

Widowed at the age of twenty-one, left penniless with four children to raise, Martha Coston overcame nineteenth century bias to carry on her deceased husbands work, patenting and manufacturing historys first night time signal device. Traveling the world, she then successfully marketed the Coston Night Signal to the navies, coast guardians and railroads of every industrialized nation, founding a company that flourished for more than a century.

In her lifetime, Martha Coston became close friends with Admiral David Farragut, was introduced to British society in Queen Victorias own drawing room, banqueted with Napoleon III at the Palaise de Tuilleries, danced with the King of Sweden at his summer retreat at Rosendal, was feted by the Admiral of the Russian fleet at Kronstadt Island in St. Petersburg, struggled across winter ice floes in Scandinavia and fought fang and claw with the United States Congress for her invention to be recognized.

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Widowed at the age of twenty-one, left penniless with four children to raise, Martha Coston overcame nineteenth century bias to carry on her deceased husbands work, patenting and manufacturing historys first night time signal device. Traveling the world, she then successfully marketed the Coston Night Signal to the navies, coast guardians and railroads of every industrialized nation, founding a company that flourished for more than a century.

In her lifetime, Martha Coston became close friends with Admiral David Farragut, was introduced to British society in Queen Victorias own drawing room, banqueted with Napoleon III at the Palaise de Tuilleries, danced with the King of Sweden at his summer retreat at Rosendal, was feted by the Admiral of the Russian fleet at Kronstadt Island in St. Petersburg, struggled across winter ice floes in Scandinavia and fought fang and claw with the United States Congress for her invention to be recognized.

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