Samuel Finley Breese Morse

  • The invention of the telegraph

    Samuel Finley Breese Morse was an American painter and inventor. After having established his reputation as a portrait painter, in his middle age Morse contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs
  • Morse code

    He created the morse code, an alphabet or code in which letters are represented by combinations of long and short signals of light or sound.

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