author
Walter Kellogg Towers
1888–1931
An editor, author, and wartime publicity director, Walter Kellogg Towers wrote lively books that brought modern communication technology to a broad audience. His best-known work, Masters of Space, traces the stories behind the telegraph, submarine cable, telephone, and wireless communication.
2 Audiobooks
Masters of space : Morse and the telegraph; Thompson and the cable; Bell and the telephone; Marconi and the wireless telegraph; Carty and the wireless telephone
by Walter Kellogg Towers
In case of fire
by Walter Kellogg Towers
About the author
Born in Chicago on August 8, 1888, Walter Kellogg Towers studied at Lewis Institute and the University of Michigan, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in 1910 and a law degree in 1912. He began in journalism and later became assistant editor and managing editor of The American Boy.
Towers went on to edit Milestones and served in Paris during World War I as publicity director for the YMCA’s American Expeditionary Forces. He later worked in sales promotion and advertising for automobile companies in Michigan.
His books included Masters of Space (1917), a popular history of Morse, the telegraph, the submarine cable, Bell, Marconi, and wireless telephony, as well as stories for young readers. He died on February 17, 1931, at the age of 42.