Portrait of the American inventor and painter Samuel Morse (1791-1872). Morse graduated at the University of Yale in 1810 and in 1811 he visited England to study painting,returning in 1815 to earn his living as a portrait painter. In 1832,after having been helped by the American physicist J. Henry,he had the idea of a design for the electric telegraph. In 1844 the first telegraph line,about 65km long,was completed linking Washington to Baltimore. The first message sent by Morse was What hath God wrought ; it was sent in a code of dots and dashes,the Morse code,which he had devised in 1838. Morse never acknowledged the help received by J. Henry | |
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