Rufus Porter’s Curious World: Art and Invention in America, 1815-1860 Home Improvement the Twentieth Maine

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Rufus Porter’s Curious World: Art and Invention in America, 1815-1860 Home Improvement the Twentieth MaineEdited by Laura Fecych Sprague and Justin Wolff Once called the Yankee Da Vinci, Rufus Porter was an itinerant portrait painter and muralist, a publisher and author, an inventor of mechanical improvements, and an impresario who engineered an airship that promised to fly gold rush prospectors from New York to California in three days. Through his diverse interests in painting, mechanics, aeronautics, and publishing, Rufus Porter helped transform art