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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | Samuel F. B. Morse |
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, New York , United States |
| Email | None |
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April 27, 1791
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| Died | April 02, 1872
(80 years)
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Modifed | Thomas Walker
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| Info | (From the National Inventors Hall of Fame):
Samuel F. B. Morse
Born Apr 27 1791 - Died Apr 2 1872
Improvement in the Mode of Communicating Information by Signals by the Application of Electro-Magnetism
Telegraph
Patent Number(s) 1,647
Inducted 1975
Morse developed 'lightning wires' and 'Morse code,' an electronic alphabet that could carry messages. The patent was applied for in 1840. A line was constructed between Baltimore and Washington and the first message, sent on May 24,1844, was 'What hath God wrought!'
Invention Impact
In 1861 the two coasts of the United States were linked by telegraph.
Inventor Bio
Samuel F. B. Morse, once a portrait painter, turned to inventing to make his fortune. Morse had little training in electricity but realized that pulses of electrical current could convey information over wires.
Born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, the eldest child of the Reverend Jedidiah Morse and his wife, Elizabeth Ann Breese, Samuel Morse attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, and entered Yale College in 1805, graduating in 1810.
Morse took out three patents on pumps in 1817 with his brother, Sidney Edwards Morse. Samuel Morse's interest in telegraphy began in 1832, and the elements of a relay system were worked out late in 1835. The equipment was gradually improved and was demonstrated in 1837. To support himself later in life Morse was largely dependent on dividends from telegraph companies.In 1858 several European countries combined to pay a gratuity of 400,000 francs as compensation for their use of his system.
First Appeared on a United States Postage Stamp in 1940.
Vote totals for elections in which was nominated for the Hall of Fame for Great Americans (1900-1965): 1900-82.
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