Set against the colourful backdrop of Victorian Britain and the exhilaration of the New World, Sounds Out of Silence is the definitive story of one of the world's greatest inventors.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

To research this book, James Mackay combed every possible source from reference books to auction catalogues and art and antique journals, as well as personally visiting museums, institutions and collections, public and private.

An account of Alexander Mackay's travels through the United States as far as the Mississippi River. He writes about American politics, religion, slavery, education and literature, the military, and the economy.

Zorra Township was divided into East and West Zorra Townships in 1845.